In addition to the unparalleled experience that fellows gets when reading congenital heart disease echoes with Dr. Shapiro (as most congenital heart disease patients will be transferred to his care in Stroger hospital), fellows will also have the opportunity to work with Dr. Hijazi, the president of The Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions(SCAI) in an elective at Rush University; they will also help in his clinic and scrub with him in procedures (septal defects closure, aortic valvuloplaty, peripheral aortic valve placement, pulmonary valvuloplasty and others).  

Echo for a patient with Ebstein's Anomaly