Message from Program Director
Westchester Medical Center is the only designated Comprehensive Stroke Center in Hudson Valley. This high level of clinical care and expertise leads to referrals and transfers of patients from a broad geographic area with the most complex cerebrovascular disease. Over 700 stroke patients are admitted per year, allowing trainees the opportunity to gain experience with critically ill patients with ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, vasculitis, dural vein thrombosis and ruptured vascular malformations. Fellows will participate in all aspects of clinical care: from the ER to the Neuro ICU, our advanced 28-bed unit equipped with multimodality monitoring, to step down and to outpatient follow-up. This comprehensive training will provide competence in all levels of acuity of care.
During this one year of training, the stroke fellow will rotate through stroke inpatient service, stroke consult service, telestroke, neurosonology, neuroendovascular service and neurorehabilitation. Electives are available in Pediatric stroke, neuro intensive care, and research.
Fellows will work with an interdisciplinary stroke team, which includes Vascular Neurologists, Neuroradiologists, Neuroendovascular surgeons and Neurointensivists. Outpatient training includes a once-a-month continuity stroke clinic at a hospital based clinic and twice-a-week in a private practice setting. This education experience is further enhanced by vascular didactic lecture series, departmental stroke conferences, multidisciplinary stroke conference and journal clubs throughout the year. The fellows are encouraged to participate in research which usually results in several publications in peer reviewed journals.
Ji Chong, MD
Medical Director Stroke Program
Vascular Neurology Fellowship Program Director
Program Overview
The Department of Neurology at New York Medical College offers an ACGME accredited Vascular Neurology (Stroke) Fellowship. This is a one-year training program at Westchester Medical Center (WMC), the largest tertiary care medical referral center in the Hudson Valley region.
How to Apply
Qualifications
Applicants must have successfully completed or be on track for successful completion of an ACGME accredited Neurology Residency (Adult Neurology residency must be completed prior to the starting the Vascular Neurology Fellowship).
Westchester Medical Center will accept individuals on J1 Visas sponsored by the ECGMG/Intealth.
Application Process
Our program will be accepting applications through ERAS for the fellowship position starting July. Applicants must upload their C.V., three letters of recommendation including one from the current program director, a personal statement and USMLE scores into the ERAS program. Applications will be reviewed starting December 1st and ERAS will close on May 31st. Interviews will be conducted in January.
Current Positions Available: Stroke fellowship position available starting July 1, 2022 – June 30 2023 and July 1, 2023 – June 30 2024.
Current Fellows
- Abdalla Albanna – Zagazig University Faculty of Medicine
Our Clinical Locations
Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR.
Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.