Research
UM Cardiovascular Disease fellows and faculty attended the 2024 American College of Cardiology conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
University of Maryland Medical Center values the pursuit of scholarship to understand pathophysiology and develop and refine clinical therapies at the basic, translational and clinical research levels.
The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing uniquely leverages expansive clinical data derived from electronic health records, elite scientists and robust infrastructure with visionary leadership to further these goals. The institute is co-directed by Dr. Bradley Maron, Professor of Medicine and faculty in the division of cardiovascular medicine.
Fellows participate in dedicated scholarly efforts as part of their training. During their first year, a formalized structure of meetings with research faculty allows fellows to identify a research faculty mentor with overlapping scholarly interests by the end of the first year of fellowship training.
Fellows collaborate with their research mentors to develop of a scholarly project with concrete goals and objectives. This may include:
- original research with development of an abstract and writing of a manuscript
- development of a case report or review article
- writing a letter to the editor
Initiatives in quality improvement, medical engagement, leadership and advocacy or medical informatics are additional areas of scholarly pursuit.
Each year, at our end-of-year fellows toast, we honor one fellow with the Dr. Elijah Saunders Distinction in Cardiovascular Research Award for outstanding scholarship, named after a celebrated UMD faculty member, Dr. Elijah Saunders. A plaque resides within the Division of Cardiology commemorating the annual recipients of this award.
The University of Maryland Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship was awarded the American Heart Association 2nd Century of Science Clinical Fellows Research Program Grant to further education of clinical fellows in research and clinical investigation.
Finally, we aim to support fellows to attend at least one society conference during their training, as well as to any conference where they have had abstracts or oral presentations accepted.