Education - Fellowships
Pain Management Anesthesiology Fellowship
Program Director: Oscar deLeon-Casasola, M.D
The Pain Management Fellowship is an American Board of Anesthesiology-approved training program. Our curriculum offers a wide exposure to acute, cancer, and chronic pain. The Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) provides a high census of chronic pain patients. Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) offers management of cancer pain, postoperative pain and palliative care.
The Pain fellow participates in all of the above routines. The fellow assists the attending in the training of pain residents and is required to submit at least one case report or one review article during his/her fellowship year. Fellows may participate in selected clinical trials. Basic research experience is also available. Research is supervised by Oscar deLeon-Casasola, M.D. Six months of Intensive cancer pain management training is provided at RPCI where the fellows gain experience in spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation and intrathecal pump implantations and therapy. Fellows also spend time with pain psychologists, neurologists, and rehabilitation physicians to understand the basis for a multidisciplinary and multimodal practice style.
Fellows who complete one year of training in Pain Management are eligible to take the American Board of Anesthesiology special certifying examination in Pain Management provided they have previously become board certified anesthesiologists.
Interested applicants may forward their resume and a universal application to:
Mary Barber
Training Program Administrator
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Buffalo
252 Farber Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-829-6103
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Program Director: Stacey Watt, MD
The Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship is a one-year American Board of Anesthesiology-accredited rotation at Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo (WCHOB). This is a tertiary care pediatric facility and a Level I Intensive Care Nursery which provides anesthesiology services for the pediatric surgical subspecialties. Approximately 12,000 cases are performed per year under general anesthesia. The pediatric anesthesiology fellows spend a total of twelve months attached to the Department of Anesthesiology. The program is divided into two parts:
- the core didactic
- clinical caseload
The pediatric anesthesiology didactic program consists of weekly one-hour conferences on topics from the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship curriculum.
The clinical caseload involves exposure to a wide variety of cases. Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellows will be competent in the management of all routine and emergency pediatric cases. They will also become competent in the insertion and interpretation of invasive monitoring for all ages of children from neonates to young adults. These skills will be taught under direct supervision of the attending anesthesiologist. The Pediatric Anesthesiology fellow will also provide anesthesia for open-heart cases, minimally invasive cardiac procedures, complex spinal fusions, and outpatient cases. At the end of the clinical year, they will be competent in all areas of pediatric anesthesia.
Interested applicants may forward their resume and universal application to:
Kimberly Everett
Training Program Administrator
Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo
219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, NY 14222
keverett@kaleidahealth.org
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program
Program Director: Nader Nader, M.D., Ph.D., F.C.C.P.
The Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program is a one- to two-year multidisciplinary training program designed to allow the individual maximal exposure to the clinical, research, administrative, and teaching opportunities in the field of cardiothoracic anesthesiology. Board-certified anesthesiologists with either fellowship training in cardiothoracic and/or pediatric anesthesia or its clinical equivalent, and board-certified cardiologists and echocardiologists comprise the faculty component of the program. All have active participation in the training of the cardiothoracic fellows. This subspecialty is recognized by the American Board of Anesthesiologists and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology.
The first fellowship year consists of clinical experience in cardiothoracic anesthesiology with involvement in available clinical research projects. Clinical training will include exposure to echocardiography, cardiology lab-based as well as intraoperative echo studies, with the goal of perioperative TEE certification through the National Board of Echocardiography. The fellow will be an integral member of the cardiac anesthesia team involved in the varied aspects of adult and pediatric clinical care. After the first year, qualified residents receive certification through the ABA.
The second optional year centers on laboratory and/or clinical research and teaching. Training for both years is conducted at the Kaleida Healthcare System, including WCHOB, and the VA of WNY Healthcare System. Upon successful completion of the fellowship, fellows will have achieved the following goals:
- the safe and skillful management of complicated cardiac and thoracic surgical patients, including proficiency in intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, and
- the completion of a research project in abstract and/or manuscript form and presentation at a national meeting.
Interested applicants may forward their resume and a universal application to:
Mary Barber
Training Program Administrator
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Buffalo
252 Farber Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-829-6103