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in our Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, you’ll receive increasing responsibilities and expectations during the three years of your fellowship, fulfilling the requirements established for board certification in pediatric cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics. At the completion of three years, we expect you will graduate with outstanding clinical proficiency, a commitment to helping others with your skills, and the ability to function as an effective, exceptionally trained clinician, contributing meaningfully to the field of pediatric cardiology.

Our program gives you:

• An environment conducive to successful learning, scholarship, self-instruction, critical thinking and scientific inquiry.
• A strong foundation of clinical knowledge in pediatric cardiology through extensive exposure to normal and abnormal cardiovascular conditions, with specific focus on the pathophysiologic basis of congenital and acquired cardiovascular disease in the fetus, neonate, infant, child and adolescent.
• Proficiency in invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures necessary for optimal cardiac care in children.
• Training in interpersonal and administrative skills needed to work effectively as a team member in pediatric cardiac care.

Training Overview

• Fellows in this program should expect exposure to diverse clinical training. Fellows will also participate in research training and will have substantial research experiences in order to expand their skill set and knowledge base.
• No greater than 40% of the training is dedicated to clinical time while at minimum 60% of the training is dedicated to research.
• The fellow will interact with other subspecialty fellows through didactic lectures and research training courses.
• Fellows will have access to the Delaware Center for Translational Research/ACCEL program at ����ר��, including the CTR’s mentoring and research education resources.
• Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with members of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Fellows will have access to professional development resources.

Details for 4th Year Advanced Cardiac Noninvasive Imaging Fellow Position

NOTE: Applications are being accepted for the 2027-2028 Advanced Imaging Fellowship position.

The successful candidate will be joining a strong team of trainees including first-year, second-year and third-year categorical fellows along with a combined PICU/Cardiology fellow.

The imaging fellowship position is a strong multifaceted program encompassing advanced cross-sectional imaging — CMR and CT, fetal echocardiography and advanced TTE imaging. The focus is on education, research that would cultivate advancement in technical skills, and maturation as an academic imager with ability to develop research and incorporate quality assessment and improvement across multimodality imaging applications.

The ����ר�� Advanced Imaging Fellowship Program will be using the to fill our position for the 2026-2027 academic year. Please see application requirements below.

Echocardiography and Imaging Attendings

Shannon Nees, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Program; Co-Chair, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Scholarly Oversight Committee, ����ר�� Cardiac Center; Director, Advanced Cardiac Noninvasive Imaging Fellowship Program

Mark J. Cartoski, MD
Medical Director, Echocardiography Lab; Director, Cross-Sectional Imaging

Majeed Bhat, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, ����ר�� Cardiac Center

Nikkan Das, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist

Grace Kong, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist

Richard Lorber, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist; Director, Fetal Heart Program

Deepika Thacker, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Medical Director, Inpatient Cardiology

Abbas Zaidi, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Medical Director, Outpatient Wilmington Cardiology Clinic, ����ר�� Cardiac Center

Application Requirements (for 4th Year Advanced Cardiac Noninvasive Imaging Fellow Position only)

1. CAS Application:
   a. Complete Personal Info form
   b. Required Suplemental form (submission required)
2. CV
3. Personal Statement
4. USML/COMLEX/equivalent exam transcript
5. Three (3) Letters of Reference*
6. ECFMG (applicable to International Medical Graduates). Please note that our program can only consider applicants currently with a J1 visa.

*Consider including one letter from a categorical fellowship director and/or echo lab director at your institution.

Letter writers are required to complete the and submit it with the standard reference letter. . The URL will also be available on the requests sent to the letter writers.

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Question About Applying?

Erin Galbraith
Program Coordinator, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
erin.galbraith@nemours.org

Shannon Nees, MD
Director, Advanced Cardiac Noninvasive Imaging Fellowship Program
shannon.nees@nemours.org