Advanced Robotic Cardiac Surgery Fellowship
Forecasted
The Advanced Robotic Cardiac Surgery Fellowship supports surgeons and cardiac surgery teams with training and mentored cases to establish robotic coronary revascularization or mitral valve surgery programs.
Funder: Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $25,000 training grant to the surgeon and institution
Summary: Supports surgeons and cardiac surgery teams establishing robotic coronary revascularization or mitral valve surgery programs at their institutions.
Key Information: Applicants need preliminary Intuitive robotics instruction and substantial clinical and institutional capacity.
Description
The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education offers this fellowship with support from Intuitive to help a surgeon and their institution launch a high-quality robotic cardiac surgery program. Applicants choose one of two pathways: robotic coronary revascularization (CABG) or robotic valve/intracardiac surgery focused on the mitral valve.
Training involves the surgeon and cardiac surgery team, including equipment and procedural instruction, observation at an experienced program, simulated procedures, and mentored cases at the fellow’s institution. An experienced surgeon designated by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) serves as mentor-sponsor. An STS proctor assists with the first five robotic cases; the fellow and team then complete ten more cases, with early results reviewed by the mentor-sponsor and the STS Robotic Cardiac Surgery Task Force.
