at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Core Cardiology Lecture Series – The core cardiology lecture series is held daily during noon conference from July to September of each year to provide incoming cardiology fellows with broad introduction to the most salient topics and concepts in cardiology.
Cath Conferences – The conference is held on Thursday of each week during noon conference. Fellows present recent cases from the cath lab, both hemodynamic and coronary angiographic information, to facilitate both faculty and fellow discussion of clinical decision making.
EKG Conference – EKG conference is held once monthly during noon conference. Interesting EKGs are presented by fellows and discussed in both concept and ABIM cardiology board format.
Journal Club – Journal club is held once monthly during noon conference. Fellows present relevant, high impact articles for discussion in the presence of both fellows and staff.
Echo Noon Conferences – Held twice monthly during noon conference. Echocardiography teaching staff reviews important topics and concepts in echocardiography.
Echo/MRI Clinical Correlation Conference – Held from 8:00 am to 9:00 am every other Wednesday. MRI and echocardiography teaching staff present interesting cases and compare findings on cardiac MR, cardiac CT, and echo for correlation.
EP conference – Held each Friday morning from 7:30 to 8:30. EP conference consists of a variety of presenters and formats, including current fellows, teaching faculty, visiting faculty, and vendors presenting on relevant topics in electrophysiology.
Interventional Fellows Conference – Held each Thursday morning from 7:00 to 8:00. Interventional conference consists of a variety of presenters and formats, including current fellows, teaching faculty, visiting faculty, and vendors presenting on relevant topics in interventional cardiology.
Grand Rounds – Held each Friday at 12:15 pm. Grand Rounds consists of an hour-long presentation given by a visiting lecturer, generally an expert in their field of cardiology, invited by our cardiology department.
M&M – Held monthly during noon conference. Senior fellows present cases of morbidity and mortality for peer review with both fellows and teaching staff.
Symposia
Cardiology Fellow Boot Camp - An incoming fellows’ boot camp is hosted prior to the matriculation of our new PGY4 fellows each year. This is coordinated by a prior THI fellow and current Texas Children’s Hospital adult congenital and electrophysiology specialist, Dr. Wilson Lam.
Echocardiography Boot Camp – Annual two day echocardiography board review and CME session involving a collaboration of leaders from Texas Heart Institute and surrounding institutions including The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.
THI Cardiac Society Symposium – Held annually in May in co
njunction with the graduating fellow pinning ceremony, the THI Cardiac Society Symposium is a full-day program exploring the management and treatment of patients with structural, coronary, peripheral vascular, and electrophysiologic diseases, congestive heart failure, and risk factor management. This course includes lectures; interactive and dynamic case presentations from leaders in each field, and the opportunity to interact with these leaders in an intimate meeting format.
CHI Heart Care Annual Symposium – A full day program involving collaborative effort between cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons from around the country discussing current and future technologies within cardiovascular care.
Anomalous Coronary Artery Symposium – This is an annual full day program moderated by Dr. Paolo Angelini and bolstered by local and international experts in the field of coronary artery anomalies involving lectures, presentations, and interventional cases broadcast through live stream.
Texas Heart Institute Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias - This is an annual full day program initiated by the late Dr. Ali Massumi and now organized and moderated by Dr. Mohammed Saeed involving local and international experts in a variety of fields of electrophysiology.
