Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Welcome Home

We are intensivists, and our home ICUs are the 16-bed surgical intensive care unit (SICU) and the cardiothoracic intensive care unit (CTICU).  We manage patients after heart, lung, liver, and pancreas transplant, and we care for patients after ECMO and VAD insertion. We collaborate with our multidisciplinary team to manage complex disease processes such as sepsis and ARDS.

Approximately 20 percent of our patients in the SICU are non-surgical medically critically ill patients, and we serve as the primary team.  As the year progresses the ICU fellow takes increasing responsibility for the conduct of rounds and decision-making, while the ICU attending remains available for backup and support as appropriate. Our fellows take night float call in the SICU and CTICU.  Our call system is designed to create a balanced experience.

Our fellows rotate through the medical intensive care unit (MICU) for one month and in the neurointensive care unit (NICU) for one month.  In addition to these rotations, our fellows will have one month of electives to experience rotations such as nephrology, infectious disease, interventional pulmonology, and radiology.  We have designed the year to give you flexibility and exposure to a diversity of disease processes in critical care medicine.

Our Year For You

Each of our fellows chooses a track, mentored by a faculty member, at the beginning of their fellow year:

• Education
• Research
• Clinical Leadership

Each track is designed to promote achievement of specific milestones to prepare our fellows to launch an academic career. We are proud of what our fellows accomplish. By the end of the year, our fellows have written book chapters, participated in research, and developed quality improvement projects. Think of these tracks as a major and a minor. The fellows can focus on one track and still participate in parts of the other tracks.

As part of our introduction in August, we organize a three-day boot camp on ICU topics.

Program start date: August 1
Number of positions available: 9
Length of program: 12 months

The dual ACCM/ACTA fellowship track consists of two consecutive years of training and is offered to two or applicants each year. Per ACGME, these are two separate one-year fellowships. Applicants interested in pursuing both fellowships at our institution should apply first to the ACCM fellowship via the SF Match and indicate their interest in a dual fellowship. Exceptions for the dual ACCM/ACTA fellowship are offered outside the match. Applicants who are not offered an exception but who are still being considered for an ACCM fellowship position only will participate in the SF Match.   Those applicants may reapply to ACTA the following year.  

Both programs must be informed of your intent to pursue the dual fellowship track. Notification should be sent to both Ms. Lisa Hasenbalg and Ms. Clara Gutierrez.

Lisa Hasenbalg
Program Coordinator, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
lh2120@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)

Clara Gutierrez
Program Coordinator, Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship
cg2673@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)

Candidates who have completed emergency medicine training and are interested in our ACCM fellowship program through the Anesthesia-ABA pathway can apply through the San Francisco (SF) Match.  You will be required to complete a two-year ACCM fellowship to satisfy the requirements of the ACEP and their agreement with the ABA.

The first year of the fellowship mirrors the experience of anesthesiology trainees.  During the second year, EM trainees will spend time refining skills such as transesophageal echocardiography, percutaneous tracheostomy, and medical education implementation.  The second year is characterized by increased autonomy and several “pretend” rotations where EM fellows mentor first-year fellows during ICU call. 

To apply to our program, please use this link: San Francisco (SF) Match(link is external and opens in a new window).

We welcome applications to our program. We believe that our fellowship will give you the opportunity to be educated, have a chance to lead, have a place to care, and to find a path to discover. We invite you to join us for the ride of a lifetime.

Please note that for the 2024-2025 ACCM fellowship year, we are participating in the San Francisco (SF) Match(link is external and opens in a new window) process.

• November 1, 2024: Applicant registration begins
• March 1, 2025: Final date for application submission
• January 2025–April 2025: ACCM fellowship interview period
• May 13, 2025: Rank list deadline
• August 1, 2026: Fellowship training begins

For more detailed information on the fellowship application process, please e-mail ACCM Program Coordinator Lisa Hasenbalg at lh2120@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail).

Fellowship Director
David S. Wang, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Fellowship Administrator
Ms. Lisa Hasenbalg
ACCM Program Coordinator
Department of Anesthesiology, PH 527-B
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University
630 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
lh2120@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)