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Yale-New Haven Medical Center Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

Fellowship · New Haven, CT

Sponsored by Yale-New Haven Hospital · Directors Nikhil Sikand and Tariq Ahmad

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Class size
2
Visas
J-1
PGY-7 salary
$115k2026 to 2027

Red flags

  • Seats left open in the Match. In 3 of the last 5 Matches, too few applicants ranked it to fill its seats.
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Getting in

The Match, seats filled

20222/2
20231/2
20242/2
20251/2
20261/2

Who started, by class

Started 20262 on record of 2 seats · 2 published before starting
  • Sara TabtabaiMassachusetts General Hospital13 papers · 1 first author · 2 case reports · 2 reviews
  • Zachary PortNewark Beth Israel Medical Center8 papers · 1 first author · 2 case reports · 2 reviews
Started 20252 on record of 2 seats · 2 published before starting
  • Evangelos OikonomouUniversity of Athens School of Health Sciences417 papers · 79 first author · 5 case reports · 165 reviews
  • Ali NasrInstitute of Cardiology8 papers · 3 case reports · 2 reviews
Started 20244 on record of 2 seats · 3 published before starting
  • Alaa AlashiTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center34 papers · 12 first author · 3 reviews
  • Michael ChenYale-New Haven Hospital4 papers
  • Michael SobierajUniversity of Southern California3 papers · 2 first author
  • Jennifer Tainsh

Training

Most graduates on record went on to cardiovascular disease.

Months at each site

  • Yale-New Haven Hospital12 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship4
  • Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship1
  • Thoracic Surgery Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

  • Yale-New Haven Hospital9
  • AdventHealth1
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia1
  • ECU Health1
  • Kaiser Permanente Washington1
  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine1

Research

75% of current fellows have a paper since 2023

3 of 4, 55 papers between them

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research

People

Leadership

  • Nikhil SikandDirector, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship
  • Tariq AhmadDirector, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship
  • Sara TabtabaiAssociate Program Director of Both the General Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship and Yale Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship
  • Carmen CarriónSr. Admin Assistant/Fellowship Coordinator

Find someone

Faculty, fellows, graduates and the people fellows publish with.

More programs at Yale-New Haven Hospital

ProgramPositions
ProgramPositions
  • Cardiovascular DiseasePositions: 27
  • Clinical Cardiac ElectrophysiologyPositions: 5
  • Clinical Informatics (Internal Medicine)Positions: 4
  • Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine)Positions: 6
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes, and MetabolismPositions: 6
  • GastroenterologyPositions: 21
  • Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine)Positions: 5
  • Hematology and Medical OncologyPositions: 30
  • Infectious DiseasePositions: 10
  • Internal MedicinePositions: 54
  • Internal MedicinePositions: 157
  • Interventional CardiologyPositions: 4
  • Interventional PulmonologyPositions: 1
  • NephrologyPositions: 16
  • Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care MedicinePositions: 22
  • RheumatologyPositions: 8
  • Sleep Medicine (Multidisciplinary)Positions: 4
  • Transplant HepatologyPositions: 1

Place

Summers reach 83°, winters fall to 24°. About 34 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

439k people live within 20 minutes of Yale-New Haven Hospital by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $1,630 a month within 10 miles of Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Publishes with fellows

  • Jennifer KwanCardiovascular Disease, 2 fellows