Clinical Rotations for Fellows

Our fellows participate in several rotations at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Health Manhattan and Brooklyn campuses.

Bellevue Hospital

Bellevue Medical Intensive Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Kerry Hena, MD
As a fellow in the Bellevue medical intensive care unit (MICU), you supervise medical house staff, consisting of four interns and three residents. You oversee morning rounds, where you formulate MICU patient management plans that you and the resident team then implement. You perform any necessary procedures under the supervision of the MICU attending. Taking the lead in conducting interdisciplinary family meetings is another responsibility. Twice a month, you present cases at a weekly ICU physiology conference.

Bellevue Critical Care Consults

Rotation Supervisor: Radu Postelnicu, MD
As a fellow in the Bellevue MICU, you provide support to the first-year MICU fellow and are responsible for critical care consults in the other adult Bellevue ICUs. These include the cardiac care unit (CCU), the surgical ICU (SICU), the neurosurgical ICU (NSICU), neuro ICU (NICU), and 16S Stepdown.

Bellevue Cardiac and Coronary Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Carlos Alviar, MD
As a fellow in the Bellevue Cardiac and Coronary Care Unit (CCU), the rotation provides an intensive learning experience in managing critically ill cardiac patients. Fellows will develop expertise in advanced cardiovascular care, including invasive hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical circulatory support, and complex cardiac interventions. They will actively participate in daily multidisciplinary rounds, procedural training, and academic discussions alongside cardiology and critical care teams. With hands-on experience in diagnosing and treating conditions such as cardiogenic shock, acute coronary syndromes, and arrhythmias, fellows will refine their clinical decision-making and leadership skills in a high-acuity setting.

Bellevue André Cournand Respiratory Physiology Research Laboratory

Rotation Supervisor: Beno Oppenheimer, MD
As a fellow at the André Cournand Respiratory Physiology Research Laboratory, housed in Bellevue, you learn the basics of lung function measurements (spirometry, plethysmography, and diffusion studies), as well as measurements and concepts related to airway hyper-reactivity, ventilatory control, exercise physiology, and lung compliance. Fellows also learn the latest approaches to chronic respiratory failure patients.;

NYU Langone Health Manhattan Campus

NYU Tisch Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Nancy Amoroso, MD
While rotating in Tisch Hospital’s MICU, you are assigned to a MICU team and supervise house staff and advanced-practice providers in the care of all MICU patients. Fellows perform all critical care procedures under faculty supervision. You care for a wide variety of medical critical care diseases, including respiratory failure and ventilator management, septic shock and hemodynamic monitoring, renal failure, cardiac disorders, cancer and cancer complications, gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders, endocrine emergencies, and infectious diseases.

NYU Tisch Hospital/Kimmel Pavilion Advanced Pulmonary: Pulmonary Hypertension and Lung Transplant

Rotation Supervisor: Roxana Sulica, MD
During this rotation, fellows learn about solid organ and lung transplant and pulmonary hypertension. You gain both inpatient and outpatient experience in pulmonary hypertension and transplant, and have the opportunity to perform right heart catheterization in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

NYU Kimmel Pavilion Coronary Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: James Horowitz, MD
During your rotation in Kimmel Pavilion’s coronary care unit, you care for patients with circulatory failure, arrhythmias, hypertensive emergencies, complications from advanced cardiac illness, organ failures, hemodynamic and ventilatory dysfunction, and cardiac and undifferentiated shock syndromes. You gain experience in echocardiography, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac arrest management and hypothermia protocols. You also manage and teach house staff and advanced-practice providers and are supervised by board-certified cardiologists and cardiac intensivists.

NYU Kimmel Pavilion Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Thomas Jan, MD
On rotation in Kimmel Pavilion’s cardiovascular ICU, you care for patients having cardiovascular surgeries, pre- and postoperatively, and for critically ill patients requiring procedures such as coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve repair or replacement, endovascular aneurysm repair, and ventricular assist device placement. You are supervised by trained intensivists and collaborate with cardiologists, consultants, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers. You are responsible for managing and teaching house staff and advanced practice providers.

Kimmel Pavilion Neurointensive Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Ariane Lewis, MD
On the Kimmel Pavilion neuro-ICU rotation you become proficient in the diagnosis, treatment, and medical management of critically ill neurology and neurosurgical patients. You manage disease states such as ischemic stroke, head trauma, status epilepticus, and intracranial hemorrhage. Postoperative neurosurgical care, hyperosmolar therapies, intracranial pressure monitoring, and ventriculostomy management are additional areas of training. Fellows must demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social–behavioral sciences and apply this knowledge to patient care. You work with neuro-intensivists and neurology and neurosurgical consultants in clinical decision-making and management.

NYU Langone Health Brooklyn Campus

NYULH—Brooklyn Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Rotation Supervisor: Jesse Victory, MD
At NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, you oversee and coordinate a closed SICU. The SICU specializes in preoperative assessment and postoperative care of critically ill trauma patients. You provide diagnostic and therapeutic evaluations during daily teaching rounds with an organ system approach.

Bronchoscopy

Rotation Supervisor: Jamie Bessich, MD
Each fellow completes a 2-week bronchoscopy introductory rotation supervised by interventional pulmonology faculty where the fellow learns best practices in bronchoscopy, as well as gains experience with a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including thoracenteses and chest tube placement.

Electives

Kimmel Pavilion Cardiac Anesthesia

Rotation Supervisor: Jennie Ngai, MD (Link out)
Cardiac Anesthesia is a 2- or 4-week elective offering within the fellowship where fellows continue to strengthen skills in airway management. This includes inserting endotracheal tubes, managing airways, and increased understanding of the medications involved. The setting for the rotation will mainly be the Operating Room setting, including the Cardiac and Thoracic ORs.

Toxicology

Rotation Supervisor: Rana Biary, MD
Toxicology is a 2-week elective offering providing fellows with comprehensive exposure to medical toxicology through clinical consultations, didactics, and hands-on patient care. Rotators engage with the New York City Poison Control Center, hospital-based toxicology services, and occupational/environmental clinics to develop expertise in managing poisonings, overdoses, and toxic exposures. The curriculum emphasizes clinical skills, scientific literature review, public health roles, and patient safety. Training includes bedside consultations, risk communication, and interprofessional collaboration. Fellows will also engage in medical toxicology clinical consultation at NYU Langone Medical Center Manhattan campus, Bellevue Hospital Center, and the Manhattan VA Hospital.

Bellevue Nocturnal ICU

Rotation Supervisor: Radu Postelnicu, MD
Nocturnal ICU is a 2-week elective in the Bellevue Medical ICU at night (7pm-7am) designed to provide the fellow with increased autonomy and independence in caring for critically ill patients. Night time affords increased responsibilities, decreased hospital staffing, and more opportunity to engage in clinical decision-making, patient work-up, and procedures. Developing these skills will be advantageous to becoming a confident intensivist after fellowship graduation, as well as those fellows looking to grow their independent practice caring for critically ill patients. Fellows complete a total of 8 nights over 14 days. There is a 24-7 in-house intensivist who will supervise all aspects of the rotation and provide education in real-time.

Many other electives can be crafted/developed depending on the interests of the individual fellow.