Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve
UVA Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve Fellowship Program
Director: John T. Saxon, MD
Please note: The position is full for the 2024-2025 academic year. If you are interested in applying for the 2025-2026 academic year, please submit your application by August 2024.
UVA’s Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve Center offers advanced fellowship training to cardiologists and surgeons in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for cardiac valve disease. Trainees have research and clinical responsibilities that aid their education alongside internationally respected faculty.
During the Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve fellowship, trainees are educated in and gain direct experience with a variety of therapies, including:
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- mitral valve repair
- transcatheter mitral commissurotomy
- percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation
- transesophageal and intracardiac echocardiographic imaging to guide valve therapies
- Transcatheter mitral and tricuspid replacement
- Transcatheter tricuspid repair
- Left atrial appendage occlusion
- Paravalvular leak closure
The position is full for the 2024-2025 academic year. If you are interested in applying for the 2025-2026 academic year, please submit your application by August 2024.
This fellowship does not sponsor J-1 or H1B visas.
To be eligible for this advanced fellowship, you must be in at least the third year of general cardiology fellowship training or beyond.
Application requirements:
- Online application form (click the “submit” box at the bottom to send)
- Curriculum vitae (see below)
- Personal statement (see below)
- Three letters of recommendation (see below for details)
CV and personal statement:
Please email these documents to us (rather than include them as part of the online application form). Ensure they are clearly labeled with your name and contact information, and email them to Kara Watts, Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve Fellowship Coordinator (kt7r@uvahealth.org).
Letters of recommendation:
We require three letters of recommendation, one from each of the following:
- Your cardiology fellowship program director
- Chief of the Division of Cardiology at your current institution
- Your research mentor, if applicable
Letters should be addressed to Dr. John Saxon, Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve Fellowship Program Director, and emailed directly from the writer or their admin to Kara Watts at (kt7r@uvahealth.org). We will not accept letters of recommendation sent directly from applicants.
More information:
We welcome and appreciate your interest in the UVA Structural Heart and Advanced Cardiac Valve Fellowship Program. For more information, please contact:
Kara Watts: Cardiac Valve
Program Administrator
Phone: 434.924.3375
Email: kt7r@uvahealth.org.