The Complex Higher-Risk But Indicated PCI (CHIP) and Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) fellowship program within Emory's Division of Cardiology is directed by William Nicholson, MD and co-directed by Stéphane Rinfret, MD. It is a non-accredited fellowship program and begins July 1, 2021. There are currently two fellows who will participate in this newly created program.
Fellows will be expected to master all clinical aspects of caring for patients with complex coronary and understand the risks/indications and techniques for interventions. This includes participation in outpatient clinics with the teaching faculty at least one a week. Fellows will be expected to develop the judgment and experience necessary to select patients and progressively function as independent operators during complex interventional procedures in patients with a wide variety of complex coronary heart disease including CTO. It is expected that each individual fellow will be first or second operator for approximately 100 cases over the course of the training year. Moreover, each fellow will be assigned one to two days of research and will be expected to contribute to data entry, data extraction, analyses and abstract, and manuscript writing. Previous experience with statistical analyses and publications will be an asset.