Message from the Program Director

Sasan Mirfakhraee, M.D.

Program Director, Department of Internal Medicine

Thank you for your interest in our fellowship training program. As Program Director, I ave been fortunate to work with a stellar group of fellows year after year. I graduated from this fellowship program in 2012, and like more than half of the current clinicians in our division, I decided to remain at UT Southwestern because it is a unique and outstanding environment to provide patient care, pursue academic interests, and experiene personal growth. Our training program is strongly committed to preparing fellows for “life after fellowship” to become expert clinicians, researchers and thought leaders and to ultimately lead successful careers as endocrinologists.

At UTSW, we have 27 dedicated and very approachable endocrine faculty who are actively involved in the clinical training of our fellows. Our fellows are supervised by these faculty at all training sites and rotate with expert clinicians in a variety of dedicated, subspecialty endocrine clinics, such as the Weight Wellness, Mineral Metabolism, Gender Care, Multidisciplinary Pituitary, and Multidisciplinary Endocrine Tumor clinics.

During the research portion of the two-year fellowship, fellows have the opportunity to work with nationally and internationally renowned mentors in areas such as diabetes and obesity, endocrine neoplasia, mineral metabolism, lipids and lipodystrophy, and thyroid research programs.

Educational sessions include a review of endocrine topics as part of a formal didactic curriculum. Fellows participate in a variety of endocrine conferences, such as Endocrine Grand Rounds, Fellows’ Case Conference, Endocrine Journal Club, “fellows’ choice” ABC conference, and multidisciplinary Reproductive Endocrinology, Pituitary, Adrenal, Mineral Metabolism and Thyroid conferences.

We appreciate your interest in the UT Southwestern Endocrinology and Metabolism Fellowship Program and look forward to meeting you during our interview season in the fall. Please contact us with questions or concerns.