Location: , - Specialty: Critical Care
AdventHealth Orlando | Orlando, Florida
One year | Non-ACGME-accredited
Advance your expertise in cardiothoracic transplantation, mechanical support, and cardiothoracic rescue. AdventHealth Orlando invites graduating critical care fellows and practicing intensivists to apply for this immersive, one-year fellowship focused on complex cardiac and pulmonary disease. An individualized educational plan builds on your experience and supports your career goals.
Focused Clinical Training
• Heart and lung transplantation: Pretransplant stabilization, perioperative critical care, graft dysfunction, and postoperative complications.
• ECMO and ECPR: Patient selection, support configurations, supervised cannulation, circuit management, troubleshooting, and liberation from support.
• Cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support: Multidisciplinary shock management, Impella, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and durable ventricular assist devices.
• TEE and bedside cardiovascular ultrasound: Supervised imaging and hemodynamic assessment to guide clinical decisions.
• Post-cardiotomy management and rescue: Ventricular failure, bleeding, tamponade, refractory respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest.
Tailored Training and Mentorship
Supervised CTICU practice is combined with focused electives, simulation, multidisciplinary conferences, and longitudinal faculty mentorship. Clinical responsibility increases with experience and demonstrated competence. Procedural training follows supervision and institutional credentialing requirements.
Fellows complete a mentored project in research, medical education, patient safety, or quality improvement, with opportunities to develop teaching and multidisciplinary leadership skills.
About AdventHealth Orlando
Serving Central Florida since 1908, AdventHealth Orlando is a tertiary hospital recognized for advanced care, research, and transplantation. Its mission is to Extend the Healing Ministry of Christ, supporting whole-person health in mind, body, and spirit. AdventHealth Orlando ranked No. 1 in the Orlando metropolitan area and No. 2 in Florida in the 2026–2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Its Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery program tied No. 50 nationally. The AdventHealth Transplant Institute includes established heart transplant services and Central Florida’s first and only lung transplant program.
Who Should Apply
Physicians board-certified or board-eligible in critical care medicine, including graduating fellows seeking advanced training and practicing intensivists seeking to expand their expertise or transition toward transplantation and mechanical support. Qualified applicants from internal medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, surgery, and neurology backgrounds are welcome.
Program Leadership
Dr. Mehul Desai (Mehul.Desai.MD@Adventhealth.com) - Program Director Dr. David Convissar (David.Convissar.MD@Adventhealth.com) - Associate Program Director
How to Apply
Submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, a copy of your medical diploma, and a USMLE transcript or institution-approved equivalent. One recommendation should be from your current or most recent fellowship program director or the medical director of your current practice.