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Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital

The Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital is a one-year program designed to train physicians in all aspects of interventional pulmonology. Accredited by the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, our fellowship provides comprehensive training in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Fellows gain experience in endobronchial ultrasound, robotic bronchoscopy, medical thoracoscopy, rigid bronchoscopy, ablative technologies, and airway stenting. Completing rotations across three clinical sites—The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai Morningside—our fellows are trained using the latest technology, including cone beam CT-integrated robotic bronchoscopy.

Fellows are fully integrated into Mount Sinai's Thoracic Oncology Program, collaborating closely with faculty from Thoracic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Anesthesia as part of a Comprehensive Cancer Center recently designated by the National Cancer Institute. Our fellows gain valuable experience by participating in our Lung Transplantation Program, Tracheal Transplant Program, Mount Sinai Sarcoidosis Program, and Complex Airway Program. Mount Sinai's interventional pulmonology faculty and fellows actively contribute to the field through numerous publications. The program provides a depth of clinical, research, and collaborative experience to help fellows succeed as interventional pulmonologists. Additional opportunities for research are provided by the resource-rich environment at Mount Sinai as exemplified by the first Institute for Airway Sciences in the nation, as well as institutes for cancer, artificial intelligence, transplant, and other disciplines.

Curriculum

Interventional pulmonology fellows gain proficiency in the full spectrum of advanced bronchoscopic, pleural, and airway procedures, including:

Flexible Bronchoscopy Diagnostic Techniques: Fellows gain proficiency in endobronchial and transbronchial biopsy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) sampling of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes, and navigational bronchoscopy using the Ion robotic platform in conjunction with radial EBUS and cone beam CT.
Flexible Bronchoscopy Therapeutic Techniques: Training includes foreign body removal, argon plasma coagulation, electrocautery, cryotherapy (contact probe and spray techniques), self-expanding metal stent insertion and removal, endobronchial valves for treatment of persistent air leak and severe emphysema, and balloon catheter placement for massive hemoptysis.
Rigid Bronchoscopy Therapeutic Techniques: Fellows develop expertise in rigid core debulking of central airway tumors, placement and removal of endobronchial stents (silicone, hybrid, dynamic, customized), rigid sequential dilation, foreign body removal, and management of massive hemoptysis.
Pleural Procedures: Procedural training encompasses ultrasound-guided thoracentesis, ultrasound-guided thoracostomy tube placement and management, tunneled indwelling pleural catheter insertion, and medical thoracoscopy, including pleural biopsy, pleurodesis, and lysis of adhesions.
Percutaneous Tracheostomy: Fellows gain proficiency in percutaneous tracheostomy placement and management.

How to Apply

We welcome one fellow per academic year. Prospective fellows must submit applications through the Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship Application System. Application materials include:

Curriculum vitae/CV
Three letters of recommendation
Personal statement
Procedure Log
United States Medical Licensing Exam or Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Exam scores

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Meet the Director

Timothy Harkin, MD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Harkin has been Board Certified in Interventional Pulmonology since 2014 and has trained over 200 pulmonary fellows in bronchoscopy and related procedures.

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