About the Program

The Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) Fellowship program at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) was established in 1978. The program has been continuously accredited by the ACGME since its inception. Three (3) fellows are accepted each year into this three-year program. All graduates have successfully passed the ABIM Certification Examination and become Board-Certified in CVD.

Kaiser Permanente LAMC is a 400+ bed, brand new (new state-of-the-art hospital building opened April 2009), tertiary referral center for more than three million Southern California Kaiser Permanente (KPSC) members. Tertiary cardiac services include adult and pediatric diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization, clinical cardiac electrophysiology (CCEP), and cardiothoracic surgery. All faculty members are associates or partners of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) and almost all hold clinical faculty appointments from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The CVD Fellowship at LAMC is supported by a highly competitive Internal Medicine residency program. Other indendent Internal medicine subspecialty fellowships include Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology. The Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Department at LAMC sponsors a joint fellowship with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

All CVD fellowship rotations take place at LAMC except for a 4-week block of Cardiac Computerized Tomography (CCT) training during the third year. This rotation, established in 2009, is at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute ( LA Biomed) at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the reowned Dr. Matthew Budoff.