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The Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center is a fellowship designed to provide advanced training in multiple modalities of extracorporeal life support, including:

• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
• Molecular adsorbent recirculating system (MARS)
• Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)
• Ventricular assist devices (VADs)

The ECLS Fellowship was created in 2020 to help further train physicians already trained in critical care. Shock Trauma and the ECLS provide an amazing opportunity for fellows to further develop their clinical and research skills while preparing for a successful academic career.

The ECLS fellowship is intended for board eligible or board certified physicians in critical care (CCM, ACCM, or SCC). Applicants must have fellowship training in critical care, but we encourage those with residency training in emergency medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, or anesthesia to apply.

A Leading Fellowship Training Environment

The ECLS Fellowship is primarily designed for physicians who want to work in a cardiac surgical or cardiothoracic intensive care unit (ICU), or who want to develop or lead an ECMO program in the future.

• The ECMO program at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is one of the busiest programs in the country and has outcomes well above the ELSO average.
• Based in our Multi-Trauma Critical Care (MTCC) Unit, the MARS Program is one of the few in the U.S. to offer extracorporeal liver support.
• In the intensive care units (ICUs) at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, intensivists manage their own continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). 

Program Leadership

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Tammy Bass, Senior Program Coordinator
Extracorporeal Life Support Fellowship