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Fellowship Opportunities

Following is a listing of available Fellowship positions. If you are a Program Director of an ASTS accredited Abdominal Fellowship Program and would like to submit a listing, please contact Kim Gifford at kimberlygifford@earthlink.net or 703 414-7870 for submission guidelines.

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Applications are being accepted for the Mayo Clinic Florida Abdominal Organ Transplantation Fellowship Program. Applicants must have successfully completed a fully accredited residency program in general surgery in the United States or Canada. One position is available beginning July 1, 2009. How to Apply: Please visit our website at http://www.mayo.edu/msgme/surg-abdominaltrans-jax-application.html to complete an application and for more information on the fellowship training program. We look forward to receiving your application.

Winston R. Hewitt, M.D.
Mayo Clinic Florida
Director, Abdominal Organ Transplant Fellowship Program
4500 San Pablo Road
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Email: hewitt.winston@mayo.edu

University of Minnesota Medical School
Applications are now being accepted for one position for a two year advanced ASTS approved training program is multiorgan transplantation at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Must be board certified, eligible or equivalent in general surgery and hold or be eligible to obtain a State of Minnesota medical license. Responsibilities include 24 months of specialty training in donor surgery and in kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation. Successful candidates will be appointed as full-time yearly renewable non-tenure track Instructors in the Department of Surgery. The start date available is January 2010. The position will remain open until filled. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. To apply, please submit curriculum vitae and bibliography to:

Arthur J. Matas, MD
Professor of Surgery
Director, Transplant Fellowship Program
University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery
420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 280
Minneapolis MN 55455
Email: matas001@umn.edu

Indiana University School of Medicine / Clarian Transplant Institute
The Transplant Surgery Section in the Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine is now accepting applications for a two-year ASTS accredited Multi-organ Transplant Fellowship beginning immediately. IUSM/CTI performed in 2007: 155 adult and pediatric liver transplants, 219 adult and pediatric kidney transplant, 22 adult and pediatric intestine/multivisceral transplants, and 84 pancreas/kidney pancreas transplants. The clinical fellow will be trained in liver, kidney, pancreas, intestine and multivisceral transplantation, as well as donor organ procurement, vascular access and laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy surgeries. The fellow will learn valuable pre-transplant selection criteria, peri-operative and post-operative care in the hospital as well as the clinical settings. The fellow will participate in the education of the surgical residents and medical students on rotation. There are also clinical research opportunities available and we encourage our fellows to publish. The candidate must have completed an accredited surgical residency program, be board certified or eligible in general surgery, eligible for Indiana license; and have completed ECFMG if applicable.

Candidates should send their curriculum vitae with bibliography and three letters of reference to:

Shana M. Knight
Transplant Surgery Fellowship Coordinator
550 N University Blvd, UH 4601
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Office: 317 278. 8364
Fax: 317 278.3268
Email to: smknight@iupui.edu

Yale University School of Medicine
The Section of Organ Transplantation and Immunology, Department of Surgery at Yale University is seeking a fellow for advanced training in clinical liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation and hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery. The fellowship is a two year position. Yale Transplant Program expects to perform 100 to 120 kidney transplants, 10-15 pancreas transplants and 50 to 60 liver transplants per year under the leadership of Dr. Sukru Emre. Broad exposure to clinical transplantation including living donor liver transplant experience is available as part of the fellowship. In addition, clinical research opportunities are available.

The applicant must be board eligible or certified in general surgery and be eligible for Connecticut licensure.
The Yale School of Medicine is an affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer. Yale University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunities for under recruited minorities and women and for persons with disability. Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae, bibliography, and the name of 3 potential references to:

Sukru Emre, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Transplantation and Immunology
Director, Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center
Department of Surgery
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street, FMB 112
PO Box 208062
New Haven, CT 06520-8019

Lahey Clinic
The Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the Lahey Clinic is seeking a fellow for advanced training in clinical liver transplantation and hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery. This fellowship is a two-year position and is ASTS certified. Broad exposure to clinical transplantation including extensive living donor liver transplant experience is available as part of the fellowship. A very large volume of non-transplant hepato-biliary-pancreatic procedures is included in the fellowship. Clinical research opportunities abound.

The applicant must be board eligible or certified in general surgery and be eligible for Massachusetts licensure. Appropriate compensation and funds are available for travel and meeting attendance.

David Lewis, MD
Director Liver Transplantation
Phone: 781 744.2500
Email: www.david.lewis@lahey.org

University of Maryland Medical Center
Applications are now being accepted for a 2 year advanced ASTS approved Fellowship Program in multi-organ transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center beginning July 2008. Candidates for the fellowship program must have satisfactorily completed a residency, which satisfies the educational requirements for certification by the American Board of Surgery or The American Board of Urology or foreign equivalency. Applicant must also be board certified or eligible in general surgery and hold or be eligible to obtain a Maryland State medical license. The training program is approximately 80 percent clinically involved and 20 percent research activities. Clinical activities will include operative experiences such as cadaver organ recovery, living donor nephrectomies, organ transplantation and urologic procedures, as well as patient evaluations and work-up, and post-transplant clinical care. The clinical research component will include opportunities to participate in clinical trials on human subjects, retrospective research analysis and research protocol development. Please send CV and 3 letters of reference to:

Benjamin Philosophe, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Head, Division of Transplantation
Director, Liver Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center
29 S. Greene Street, Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: bphilosophe@smail.umaryland.edu
University of Pittsburgh
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute requests applications for the 2008 Thomas E. Starzl Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transplantation Biology at the University of Pittsburg. This fellowship has been established to train outstanding national or international M.D., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. fellows who exhibit potential to develop into highly successful independent investigators and likely to remain in transplantation research. The purpose of this two-year fellowship is to foster the training of research fellows with the potential to develop into successful independent investigators and to foster, through training research fellows, basic or clinical transplant-related research that is of high merit. Application deadline is December 1, 2007 with a beginning start date of July 1, 2008.

For more information, application and instructions, visit:
http://stiresearch.health.pitt.edu/
Email: stiresearch@pitt.edu For application inquiries

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