A New Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Extracorporeal Life Support Fellowship

The Cardiac Critical Care and ECMO Fellowship is a one-year advanced training program designed to prepare intensivists for leadership in cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, and extracorporeal life support. Based within a high-volume quaternary cardiovascular center, fellows train in a dedicated 32-bed ECMO unit and a 28-bed cardiothoracic surgical ICU, gaining immersive experience across the full spectrum of advanced cardiac critical care. With 233 ECMO runs annually, 40 heart transplants, 32 lung transplants, and 50 LVAD implantations in the past year, the program offers exceptional exposure to complex post-cardiotomy care, advanced heart failure, durable and temporary mechanical circulatory support, and both VA and VV ECMO. As the only ECPR center in Central Florida, our program provides unique expertise in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, with a developing mobile ECMO initiative that further expands systems-based shock care.

Program Volume by the numbers (for 2025)

• 233 ECMO runs

• 40 heart transplants

• 50 LVAD implants

• 32 lung transplants

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible to apply for the Fellowship, physicians must be board-certified or board-eligible in critical care medicine. All clinical backgrounds are welcome to apply, including internal medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, surgery, and neurology.

Rotation Schedule

6 blocks of Advanced Cardiac Surgical Unit (the ECMO, heart failure, and thoracic organ transplant unit)

2 blocks of Cardiomedical ICU

2 blocks of cardiac surgery and thoracic transplant

1 block of Heart Failure Medicine and Pulmonary Hypertension

1 block of Echo/TEE

1 block of elective