Fellowships in Internal Medicine
The intellectual environment at UT Southwestern Medical Center emphasizes scholarship and fosters an understanding of the pathogenesis and natural history of disease, as well as evidence-based clinical therapeutics. Fellows may enter one of several tracks highlighted below (the language naming these tracks can differ slightly from division to division):
- Clinical Scholar Track
- Investigator Track
- Combined Clinical and Research Training
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in Basic Research
The Department of Internal Medicine is organized into Divisions that provide the excellent education, research, and patient care for which the Department is renowned. Among the resources available to fellows is the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) under the auspices of which our internationally renowned faculty provides highly individualized scientific mentorship in preparation for a career in biomedical research.
Fellowship Programs
- Allergy
Program Director: David Khan, M.D.
- Cardiology
Program Director: Gail Peterson, M.D.
- Advanced Adult Structural Interventional Fellowship
Program Director: Dharam Kumbhani, M.D. - Advanced Echocardiography
Program Director: Anish Bhatt, M.D. - Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Program Director: Robert Morlend, M.D. - Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Program Director: Jose Joglar, M.D. - Cardio-Oncology
Program Director: Vlad Zaha, M.D., Ph.D. - Interventional Cardiology
Program Director: Tayo Addo, M.D.
- Advanced Adult Structural Interventional Fellowship
- Digestive & Liver Diseases
Program Director: Ariel Aday, M.D.
- Advanced Endoscopy
Program Director: Tarek Sawas, M.D. - Transplant Hepatology
Program Director: Shannan Tujios, M.D.
- Advanced Endoscopy
- Endocrinology
Program Director: Sasan Mirfakhraee, M.D.
- Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
Program Director: Abhamanyu Garg, M.D.
- Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
- General Internal Medicine
- Program Director: Michael Bowen, M.D.
- Geriatric Medicine
- Program Director: Namirah Jamshed, M.D.
- Hematology/Oncology
- Program Director: Amy Jones, M.D.
- Hypertension
- Program Director: Wanpen Vongpatanasin, M.D.
- Infectious Diseases
- Program Director: James Cutrell, M.D.
- HIV Medicine
Program Director: Ellen Kitchell, M.D. - Transplant ID
Program Director: Ricardo La Hoz, M.D.
- Nephrology
- Program Director: Kamalanathan Sambandam, M.D.
- Transplant Nephrology
Program Director: Laila Lakhani, M.D.
- Palliative Medicine
- Program Director: M. Elizabeth Paulk, M.D.
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Program Director: John Battaile, M.D.
Lung Transplant
Program Director: Irina Timofte, M.D. - Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship
Program Director: Audra Schwalk, M.D.
- Program Director: John Battaile, M.D.
- Rheumatic Diseases
- Program Director: Guillermo “Andres” Quiceno, M.D.