Central Nervous System (CNS) Endovascular Surgery Fellowship

Participants:
Post-residency graduates seeking broad exposure to the full spectrum of Endovascular Neurosurgery (also known as Central Nervous System- Endovascular Surgery (CNS-NS). Our program is CAST certified by The Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training (CAST). Starting July 2027, incoming fellows will be selected based on the ERAS application process.

Candidates:
The educational program in CNS-ES may be enfolded and completed within the neurosurgical residency or accomplished after completion of formal prerequisite training. The program offers 1-2 years of dedicated and continuous advanced medical education and training in CNS-ES, to satisfactorily complete and validate catheter-based skills and competency, as well as all other pre-requisites for each individual specialty including Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Radiology. Such pre-requisite training must include an ACGME-accredited neurosurgical residency, an ACGME-accredited neurology residency followed by a stroke or critical care fellowship, or an ACGME-accredited radiology residency followed by a neuroradiology fellowship during which there has been at least 6 months of focused clinical service in a neurosurgery, vascular neurology or neurointensive care program.

Program Length:
24 Months for candidates seeking diagnostic and interventional training.
12 Months for candidates who completed a diagnostic year and seeing only interventional training

Accreditation:
UIC CNS-ES is a CAST (The Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training) accredited program. CAST is responsible for accreditation of subspecialty training fellowships and for the development and updating of subspecialty training requirements.
As a CAST accredited program, the UIC fellowship program meets the requirements for certification of our program including meeting the minimum case load.

Program Description:
The CNS-ES fellowship training program has existed for over 30 years and is continuing, with a long track of established practitioners. This program/fellowship is a comprehensive program that provides a full 1 or 2-year hands-on, catheter-based training in diagnostic and interventional treatment of cerebrovascular disease management. Fellows are trained in every aspect of cerebrovascular disease, which includes procedural catheter-based interventions, outpatient and inpatient care/management. The training has three major goals, to provide supervised training in all aspects of clinical CNS-ES, to provide diversified education in Neuroendovascular intervention, allied clinical specialties and basic neuroscience and lastly, to support and encourage research.

Description of Teaching/Learning Activities:

1. Clinical experience in the neuroangio suites the University of Illinois Health (UI Health).
2. Monthly Neurosurgery Grand Rounds with guest lecturers among the leaders in neurosurgery and neurosurgical research, followed by case presentations from the neurosurgical community in the city
3. Daily multidisciplinary teaching rounds in the ICU
4. Monthly M&M conferences with case discussions
5. Participation in teaching conferences and symposia is dedicated to cerebrovascular topics.
6. Dedicated time for participation in research projects performed by the section of endovascular neurosurgery.
7. Hands-on cadaver and microsurgery laboratory.
8. Weekly Endovascular and Neurovascular Conferences which involve reviewing and developing therapeutic

Facilities and Other Resources:

The fellowship program has access to established facilities and resources including:

• Imaging equipment and procedure rooms, these are appropriately equipped, and available for the performance of all CNS-ES procedures.
• Physiologic monitoring includes EEG, TCD, SSEP, and MEP in the procedure rooms.
• Imaging equipment includes two state-of-the-art biplanar fluoroscopy with digital subtraction and roadmap capability, rotational 3-Dimensional imaging, flat-panel CT scan and needle navigation softwares.
• Adequate in- patient, outpatient, emergency, and neurointensive care that is necessary for the care of the CNS-ES patient.
• Ancillary up to date imaging such as MRI, MRA, QMRA, Perfusion MRI, Functional MRI, CT with perfusion analysis software (RAPID) and two in Angio suite ultrasound machines. Ancillary up to date imaging such as MRI, MRA, QMRA, Perfusion MRI, Functional MRI, CT with perfusion analysis software (RAPID) and two ultrasound machines (in the Angio suite).

Application:
To apply for the Neuroendovascular fellowship position, click the link below. We are now participating with MyERAS to accept applications. Further information can be found at MyERAS.
https://snisonline.org/neurointerventional-fellowship-match-application-process/