About the fellowship

The Advanced GI/MIS Fellowship program has been active at Oregon Health & Science University since 1998 as a fellowship in advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) and has graduated more than 40 fellows, half of whom are currently in academic practice. Our fellowship experience currently focuses on advanced GI/MIS and open surgery for complex problems in UGI and HPB surgery. Application to the fellowship is available to any candidate who has completed an ACGME-accredited general surgery residency program. Candidates completing a general surgical residency must be eligible to take the Qualifying Exam of the American Board of Surgery, and provide letters of recommendation regarding their performance and good standing in their residency program.

The Advanced GI/MIS Fellowship focuses on attainment of proficiency in all areas of UGI surgery beyond the scope of a general surgery residency, as defined by the SCORE curriculum of the American Board of Surgery (ABS). These areas include complex esophagogastric, bariatric and HPB surgery, whether performed with minimally invasive or maximally invasive (open) access, with training offered in robotic-assisted surgery. Examples of procedures emphasized include liver resection, bile duct reconstruction, pancreaticoduodenectomy, minimally invasive esophagectomy and gastrectomy for malignant and benign conditions of the stomach and esophagus as well as laparoscopic repair of complex paraesophageal hernia. Our group also has considerable expertise in multiple laparoscopic approaches for both groin and ventral hernia repair. We are also extremely fortunate to have a strong collaboration with our complex abdominal wall reconstruction surgeons. In addition, fellows have the opportunity to perform endoscopic suture repair procedures using Apollo Endosurgery's OverStitch endoscopic suturing platform.

The GI/MIS fellow is required to attend clinic according to faculty schedules and will assume primary responsibility for diagnostic work-up and treatment plans.

The GI/MIS fellow will be part of the surgical team and thus will interact with general surgery residents and medical students. The fellow will be expected to participate in teaching opportunities related to the daily care of surgical patients.

Conferences include weekly Grand Rounds, Morbidity & Mortality Conference and GI/Oncology Conference, as well as biweekly Periampullary and Pancreatic Oncology Conference. The foregut service also sponsors a bi-weekly Esophageal Care Conference and a monthly High-Risk Bariatric Conference.

Applications to the fellowship program are only accepted through The Fellowship Council website. 

Salary is based upon PGY level coming into the program.

There are no outside rotations or research year in this program.