Experience this pioneering fellowship in hemodynamics
Few places in the world offer fellowship level training focused entirely on hemodynamic care for the neonate. The University of Iowa program is the first of its kind in the United States, patterned after the pioneering work done at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and other medical centers in Canada.
This one-year neonatal hemodynamics fellowship provides capstone training for an individual who has completed a traditional fellowship in neonatology.
- It exposes the fellow to an extremely broad range of neonates—including some of the world’s smallest—in one of the country’s premier centers for neonatal care.
- It focuses on refining the specialist’s expertise in imaging and testing to better understand the heart and circulatory system of individual patients and tailor their care based on each patient’s unique characteristics.
- It prepares this unique specialist to become a leader in establishing similar programs in centers around the world, helping the profession overall improve its care and understanding of the hemodynamics of neonates.
Quick Facts
- Number of fellows accepted each year: 2
- One-year fellowship
- 88-bed NICU, and expansion in 2025-2026
- Iowa's only nationally ranked Level IV NICU
- Procedural volume: 1,000+ patients
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Acute and chronic pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary vascular disease
- Heart dysfunction
- Shock and acute hypotension
- Systemic hypertension
- Arterio-venous malformations (with specialized expertise in patients with Vein of Galen Malformation)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
The neonatal hemodynamics program has been instrumental in shaping my development as a neonatologist. This training has provided me with not only technical echocardiography acquisition skills, but more importantly, the ability to tailor management strategies to each patient’s unique physiology. This specialized experience has deepened my understanding of complex neonatal conditions and enhanced my clinical decision-making. The training I have received is unparalleled and will undoubtedly benefit patients throughout my future career.
The Iowa Difference
You will benefit from Iowa’s tradition of collaboration.
The University of Iowa is well suited to be part of this unique approach to managing the heart and circulatory system of the tiniest babies.
We are leaders in neonatology care, known worldwide for documenting our protocols and sharing them with the world.
Our culture of academic medicine is one of collaboration, where it’s natural for specialists in cardiology to work closely with neonatologists to better understand complex physiology and develop appropriate care based on groundbreaking diagnostic tools.
In partnership with the pediatric echo lab, trainees will be exposed not only to neonatal echocardiography but will also get an opportunity to observe cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography as part of their training.
You will work in unrivaled facilities designed for specialty care.
We provide care in the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Our intensive care facilities were designed by our care teams and came on line in the past few years. They offer the most sophisticated technology and incorporate best practices for patient care. In our center, echocardiography may be used in combination with near infrared spectroscopy and non-invasive cardiac output monitoring to develop a comprehensive understanding of neonatal physiology in real time.
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center is a designated Magnet hospital, and has been so longer than most in the country. Our nurses and support teams work at the highest levels of responsibility, adding to the quality of care we are able to deliver for our patients and their families.
You will use state-of-the-art simulators and imaging modalities.
Iowa is one of the few places in the country to make full use of the EchoCOM echocardiology simulator. The device allows for 3D reconstructions and can provide simulations of conditions with anatomically normal and abnormal heart structures.
The Iowa echocardiography team uses state-of-the-art imaging that allows for precise assessments of individual patients as well as instant access to database images for background and comparison.
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Department Honors/Recognition
2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings:
- No.1 children's hospital in Iowa
- No. 21 in neonatology
- Highly ranked in nine pediatric specialties
Iowa’s Only Nationally Ranked Neonatology Program and Level 4 NICU.
View some of our other distinctions and designations.
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