Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
The Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Medical Center is committed to training academic pediatric cardiologists with a strong clinical cardiology foundation and an interest and expertise in clinical or basic research. The training schedule is flexible and is tailored to fit the clinical or basic research needs of the trainee. All aspects of clinical training, clinical research and basic research are well represented in the division, which has a national reputation for the excellent research achievements and clinical expertise of the faculty.
Program Director: Susan Etheridge MD
Research Training
Clinical Research: this is both through individual faculty in the division with interests and expertise in various clinical research studies and fostered by the division being one of 7 key programs in The Pediatric Heart Disease Clinical Research Network, a national multicenter research network funded by NHLBI to conduct randomized clinical trials on many aspects of pediatric cardiology. A Masters in Clinical Investigation is available through the Clinical Research Center at the University of Utah
Basic Research: this is available both within and outside the division. The University of Utah is particularly strong in Developmental Biology and Birth Defects related to heart disease and there is a newly established Children’s Health Research Center at the University; research in the Molecular and Genetic Basis of Heart Disease is also very strong and occurs in multiple different laboratories in the University Research Center, including Martin Tristani’s laboratory, which studies normal and abnormal function of the cardiac potassium channel
Research in Public Health: this can lead to an M.P.H. through the existing curriculum at the University of Utah.
