Message from Program Director
Welcome to the Westchester Medical Center Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program information page.
The Division of Cardiology at Westchester Medical Center (WMC), affiliated with New York Medical College, offers a one year ACGME accredited Fellowship Training Program in Interventional Cardiology. We have one fellowship position. The Fellow receives training in all aspects of diagnostic cardiac catheterization, percutaneous coronary intervention, peripheral vascular intervention, and mechanical circulatory support including ECMO and Impella. The fellow will also participate in our Structural Heart Program which includes TAVR, Mitraclip, ASD/PFO closure and our Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program including Alcohol Septal Ablation.
We participate in ERAS. Applicants must complete a 3-year Internal Medicine Residency and 3-year Cardiology Fellowship to be eligible. Our application cycle begins on December 1st each year via ERAS (ex. ERAS applications open December 1, 2018 for a program start date July 1, 2020). Please contact Tracy Curtiss for more information at 914.493.6608 or [email protected].
Sincerely,
Hasan Ahmad, MD
Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Director, Structural Heart Program
Westchester Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
New York Medical College
How to Apply
Contact Us
Tracy Curtiss
Academic Coordinator, Division of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center
100 Woods Road, Macy Pavilion, Suite 100, Valhalla, NY 10595
914.493.6608 || [email protected]
Current Fellows
- Maziyar Daneshvar – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Program Alumni
- Aaqib Malik, MBBS
Medical School: Rawalpindi Medical College
Residency: Griffin Hospital Program
Fellowship: Westchester Medical Center - Akhtar Amin, MBBS
Medical School: Dow Medical College
Residency: Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program (Internal Medicine)
Fellowship: University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) - Carlos Vazquez Sosa, MD
Medical School: San Juan Bautista Escuela de Medicina
Graduation Date: June 2014
Residency: Rochester General Hospital Program (Internal Medicine – General)
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.
Westchester Medical Center 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 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.