Education

Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Overview

The Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care at the University of Chicago offers 3, one-year ACGME accredited critical care fellowship positions. We offer a high acuity, diverse clinical experience while emphasizing fellow education with daily protected didactic time.  Fellows are encouraged to develop their skills as a team leader and educator throughout the whole of their training year.

Clinical Rotations

Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in patient care, supervise residents and teach medical students in a multitude of intensive care environments.

  • Cardiovascular & thoracic ICU (3 months) – Fellows have the opportunity to care for perioperative patients many of whom require mechanical circulatory support devices including IABP, Impella, LVAD, RVAD, ECMO and others. In the CT ICU, fellows will care for patients undergoing heart, lung and multiorgan transplantation. UCM has performed more triple organ (heart/liver/kidney) transplants than any other center in the U.S.
  • Surgical/Trauma ICU (3 months) – UCM has one of the busiest level one trauma centers and one of the highest rates of penetrating injury in the country. Fellows work in a multidisciplinary team with surgical and anesthesia intensivists caring for patients with traumatic injuries and following major surgeries including liver transplant, kidney transplant, pancreatic and major oncologic surgery.
  • Medical ICU
  • Neurologic/Neurosurgical ICU
  • Echocardiography
  • Radiology
  • Electives – fellows may choose any critical care related rotation that may interest them. Electives may be between 1-6 weeks in length.  Popular rotations have included critical care nephrology, mechanical circulatory support, blood bank medicine, palliative care, research

Didactics

Fellows receive daily protected time to participate in fellow specific didactics including:

  • Journal club
  • Critical care concepts
  • Quality improvement/M&M
  • Multidisciplinary faculty didactics
  • Multidisciplinary case discussion
  • Board preparation - anesthesia applied, critical care ECHO and critical care exam

 

Faculty

Allison Dalton, MD, Fellowship Program Director
Associate Professor, Vice-Chair for Education

Stephen Estime, MD
Associate Professor

Nisha Jain, MD
Assistant Professor

Aalok Kacha, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Junaid Nizamuddin, MD
Associate Professor

Michael O’Connor, MD
Professor

Daniel Rubin, MD
Associate Professor

Sajid Shahul, MBBS, PhD
Professor, Vice-Chair for Research

Avery Tung, MD
Professor, Section Chief, Critical Care Medicine

Residents | Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care | The University of Chicago (uchicago.edu)

Julie Gillespie, M.D.

Jason King, M.D.

David Roehrich, M.D. 

Amanda Walborn, M.D.

 

 

Kyle Hogarth MD
Professor

John Kress MD
Professor

John McConville MD
Associate Professor

Babak Mokhlesi MD
Associate Professor

Ted Naureckas MD
Professor

Jason Poston MD
Associate Professor

Lawrence Gottlieb, MD
Professor

Selwyn Rogers, MD
Professor

Kenneth Wilson, MD
Professor

Tanya Zakrison, MD
Associate Professor

Brian Williams, MD
Associate Professor

Susan Rowell, MD, MBA
Professor

 

Scholarly Activity

Fellows are encouraged to participate in research or quality improvement projects with our dedicated faculty. Fellows may join a faculty member who has a project already underway or may design a new project of their choice.

Dual Fellowship Opportunities

We happily accept applications for those who would like to pursue dual fellowship training in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia or Obstetric Anesthesia.

Application

We participate in the San Francisco (SF) Match. For more information about the SF Match, please visit https://sfmatch.org/specialty/critical-care-anesthesiology-fellowship/Overview.