The Albany Medical Center Endovascular Fellowship entails 12 continuous months of training, during which the fellow will develop interventional and procedural expertise in vascular disorders including the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage, unruptured intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, acute ischemic stroke, intracranial stenosis, cerebral venous interventions, head and neck tumor embolization, endovascular treatment of epistaxis and percutaneous treatment of hemangioma or venous angiomas. The Neuroendovascular Surgery fellows participate in every aspect of the care of patients undergoing neurointerventional procedures. The fellowship training emphasizes communication and teamwork as well as diagnostic workup, therapeutic decision making, compilation avoidance and management and preoperative and postoperative clinical management. These objectives will be met through daily rounds, participation in weekly teaching conferences, research activities and case participation.
Goals & Objectives
The endovascular neurosurgery fellowship has been designed to train neurosurgeons in all aspects of interventional neurosurgery including diagnostic angiography, embolization of aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, placement of flow diverting stents, placement of carotid stents, embolization of vascular and head and neck tumors, cerebral venous interventions (dural AVF embolization, venous occlusion/stenosis, and inferior petrosal sinus sampling), and mechanical thrombectomy. Upon completion of the fellowship, the fellow should feel competent establishing their own career. The fellow should be able to manage pre- and postoperative patients as well as any intraoperative complication.