The Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship is a flexible one- or two-year program targeted to those who have already completed an internal medicine residency and general cardiology fellowship. Fellowship training is clinically oriented, and fellows are actively involved in day-to-day management of patients with complex arrhythmias. Training emphasizes both pharmocologic and catheter ablative approaches to arrhythmic management as well as device based therapies such as pacemakers, ICDs and biventricular pacing. Fellows are also encouraged to participate in many active ongoing research projects. The types of patients evaluated include those patients who have:

• Survived cardiac arrest
• Experienced syncope
• Tachyarrhythmias arising from either the upper or lower chambers of the heart
• Abnormally slow rhythms
• Refractory CHF
• High risk for sudden cardiac death