Fellowship Training Facilities
The UTHSC fellowship is strengthened by its partnership with two high-volume, complementary clinical environments. Fellows rotate three months at each site, allowing progressive responsibility and repeated exposure to core pathologies at increasing levels of autonomy.
The service includes fellows, senior and junior general surgery residents, and advanced practice providers. Our fellows follow institutional call and duty hour guidelines in accordance with ACGME standards.
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis
6019 Walnut Grove Rd.
Memphis, TN 38120
901.226.5000
Baptist Memorial Hospital (BMH) - Memphis is the flagship hospital of the Baptist
Memorial Health Care system and a tertiary care referral center. The 80-acre campus includes the hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Baptist Women’s Health Center, Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children’s Hospital, and Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, Baptist Heart Institute, and five (5) physicians’ office buildings. The Baptist mission is a three-fold ministry of healing, preaching, and teaching
which is used to provide quality health care.
BMH is one of Tennessee's busiest hospitals with 65,000 emergency department visits
and 12,000 surgeries each year. The hospital physicians are Mid-South transplant pioneers,
performing the first area open heart surgery in 1960 and the first local heart transplant
in 1985.
Duration: 3 months per block
Faculty:
- Edward Garrett
- Nicholas Pellicio
- Hamda Almaazmi
- Lamar Moree
- John Craig
Baptist Memphis offers a large-volume elective and complex vascular practice, with advanced reconstructive and endovascular therapy. Fellows participate in:
- Advanced endovascular procedures, including TEVAR, EVAR, TAMBE, Branched Devices, advanced septotomy, complex peripheral interventions
- Open aortic surgery, including aneurysm and occlusive disease
- Carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting
- Open and endovascular limb salvage
- Deep venous reconstruction, varicose/venous insufficiency care, and thrombosis management
- Dialysis access creation and maintenance
- Multidisciplinary limb salvage teams and outpatient continuity clinics
Regional One Health
901.545.7100
Regional One Health (ROH) was established in 1829, making it the oldest health system
in Tennessee. In addition to being the home of the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, Regional One Health also includes several other Centers of Excellence in Burn, High-Risk
Obstetrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU).
ROH is the largest medical and surgical teaching site for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. More than half of Tennessee's doctors will receive some, if not all, training at
ROH. The partnership between Regional One Health and the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center includes the UT Regional One Physicians group, the largest teaching physician group of its kind in the Mid-South.
Duration: 3 months per block
Faculty:
- Erica L Mitchell
- Mohammed Moursi
- Sira Duson
- Chinmayee Potti
- Leanne Grafmuller
Regional One Health (ROH) is one of the busiest and highest-acuity vascular centers in the Mid-South, anchored by Tennessee’s largest Level I trauma center. Fellows gain extensive exposure to:
- Vascular trauma (blunt and penetrating)
- Emergency hybrid and open vascular reconstructions
- Aortic dissections and emergent aortic pathology
- Limb salvage, CLTI, and complex peripheral disease
- Dialysis access and management of access complications
- Multidisciplinary collaboration with trauma surgery, acute care surgery, ICU teams, podiatry, nephrology, surgical oncology and cardiology
- Endovascular and open aortic surgery, including aneurysm and occlusive disease
- Carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting
Regional One provides unmatched experience in time-sensitive, high-stakes vascular decision-making, producing fellows who are confident and capable in trauma, extremity revascularization, and emergent vascular intervention.
Integrated Vascular Laboratory & RPVI Curriculum (Program-Wide)
To ensure competency in modern vascular practice, all fellows complete a structured RPVI/Vascular Laboratory curriculum, including:
- Weekly didactics with dedicated time for Vascular laboratory curriculum covering ultrasound physics, Doppler, cerebrovascular imaging, peripheral arterial & venous duplex, renal/mesenteric imaging, abdominal aortic imaging, and venous insufficiency
- Required completion of all 203 VESAP Vascular Laboratory questions
- Hands-on interpretation of over 500 vascular laboratory studies
- Preoperative vein mapping, intraoperative duplex assessment, access ultrasound, and surveillance ultrasound training
- Participation in Pegasus mock RPVI exam
- Dedicated faculty-led didactics, specialty lectures, and hands-on sessions
- Continuous logging of interpreted cases (required for RPVI certification)
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
901.287.5437
Established in 1952, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is an integral part of the Methodist
Le Bonheur Healthcare system and a teaching affiliate for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. A new $340-million hospital building was built in December 2010 to accommodate the
over 100,000 patients seen each year.
Named one of the nation's "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for eight consecutive years, Le Bonheur is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the Mid-South. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) provides the highest level of care for the region's critically ill newborns. Le Bonheur has received many accolades of excellence over the years including: Top Children's Hospital in 2017 by the Leapfrog group for its safe patient care, Magnet status - one of only 7 percent of hospitals in the U.S. to have earned this honor for quality nursing care by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and a three-star rating (the highest) by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons for its Heart Institute.
A unique strength of the UTHSC program is exposure to pediatric vascular trauma and congenital vascular pathology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals. During their rotation at ROH, fellows participate in consults, operative management, and multidisciplinary care of vascular injuries in children, including rare and complex scenarios like congenital anomalies, thoracic outlet syndrome and Nutcracker syndrome. This experience enhances technical adaptability and broadens clinical judgment - skills essential for handling the full variety of vascular disease presentations.