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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Vascular Surgery - Integrated

Residency · Chicago, IL

Sponsored by McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University · Director Heron Rodriguez

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Class size
2
Visas
J-1, H-1BH-1B for some
PGY-1 salary
$81k2027 to 2028

Red flags

  • ACGME warning. The accreditor found problems the program must fix, short of probation.

Green flags

  • Fills every seat. Every seat filled in each of the last 5 Matches.
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Getting in

Who started, by class

Started 20241 on record of 1 seat · 1 international · 1 published before starting
  • Lara LopesFederal University of Minas Gerais3 papers · 1 first author · 1 review

Training

4 training sites. Graduates on record most often went on to vascular surgery.

Months at each site

  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital42 mo
  • Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center12 mo
  • Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital6 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Vascular Surgery Fellowship20
  • Surgery Residency15
  • General Surgery Residency6
  • General Surgery Fellowship2
  • Fellowship1
  • Residency1

Where graduates work now

  • McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University18
  • Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center2
  • Henry Ford Health2
  • Louisiana State University School of Medicine2
  • Stanford Health Care2
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago2

Research

64% of current residents have a paper since 2023

7 of 11, 53 papers between them

  • Peripheral Artery Disease Management
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

People

Leadership

  • Heron RodriguezProgram Director
  • Anand BrahmandamAssociate Program Director
  • Mark EskandariChief, Division of Vascular Surgery
  • Deena El-GabriChief Residents & PGY-5

Find someone

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

Place

Summers reach 85°, winters fall to 20°. About 39 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

2.3M people live within 20 minutes of Northwestern Memorial Hospital by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $1,770 a month within 10 miles of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Hazards

  • Cold waves
  • Tornadoes
  • Winter storms
  • River flooding

Publishes with residents

  • Karen HoGeneral Acute Care Hospital, 4 residents
  • Mark EskandariVascular Surgery, 4 residents
  • Ashley VavraSurgery, 4 residents
  • Andrew HoelSurgery, 4 residents