Fellowship Information: We will have one fellowship position available for July 2025 only via ERAS applications in Summer of 2024.
Department of Medicine
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
Overview
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
The goal of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is to prepare board eligible or certified internal medicine or emergency medicine physicians for careers in clinical or academic Critical Care Medicine. In all aspects of the educational program, the Fellow is encouraged to develop an attitude of scholarship and the intellectual curiosity to remain in the informational forefront of the discipline throughout his or her professional lifetime. This program is specifically designed to provide the basic and clinical knowledge to effectively care for critically-ill patients, to develop the ability to perform relevant invasive procedures, to develop the skills and credentials necessary to pursue a career in academic medicine, and to develop the skills needed to lead a critical care unit.
One to two fellowship positions are offered each year for training in Critical Care Medicine. Additional years for research training are encouraged. Applications for fellowship are accepted ONLY through ERAS (the Electronic Residency Application Service).
Eligible candidates for the 2-year fellowship include graduates of ACGME-accredited residencies in Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine. Eligible candidates for the 1-year fellowship include previous graduates of an approved ACGME-accredited subspecialty fellowship of Internal Medicine.
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If you’re looking to find out what Rhode Island has to offer for your time outside of the hospital, please visit the Life in RI page or the Internal Medicine Residency’s Why Providence? page.
Basic Information For Applicants
- Sponsored By: Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital (primary teaching site)
- Program Size: 3 fellows = 1-2 open positions per year.
- NRMP: Critical Care Medicine is now participating in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
- ERAS: Applications are only accepted via ERAS. Earliest dates for applications are July, latest date is December. The interview process goes from September to January.
- USMLE: Step 1 is required
- ECFMG: Is required if applicant is foreign medical graduate
- Citizenship: US Citizen, US permanent resident and J-1 applicants are accepted
- EM Applicants: Emergency medicine applicants require 6 months of pre-requisite residency training in internal medicine rotations. If an emergency medicine graduate enters a critical care medicine program with less than the prerequisite clinical education, he or she will need to complete the remaining months at the beginning of fellowship. These additional months will not add to the overall 24-month training time but will reduce months otherwise available for research or electives.
- Stipends and Benefits: First year fellows enter program at PGY4 level, and salaries are commensurate with their post graduate level. Funding is available and can be arranged for fellows to travel to and attend educational conferences.
- Contact: Kerri Carvalho, Fellowship Coordinator, KCarvalho4@Lifespan.org
Current & Former Fellows
First-Year Fellows
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Khaled Jamoor, MD
Medical School: University of Damascus
Residency: Henry Ford Health System, Internal Medicine Program -
Philip Riddle, MD
Medical School: University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Residency: Prisma Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Program
Second-Year Fellow
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Shilpa Kolli, MD
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi/Montefiore) Emergency Medicine Program
Former Fellows
Class of 2024
- Janet Joseph, MD – Critical Care Physician at HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
- Mareril Wheeler, MD – Critical Care Physician, BSA Health System, St. Anthony’s Hospital, Amarillo, Texas
Class of 2023
- Sneha Lakshman, MD – Nephrology Fellowship, Stanford University, California
Class of 2022
- Ravi Sarpatwari, MD – Critical care and Emergency medicine physician, Cape Cod Hospital, Massachusetts
- Chris Allison, MD – Critical care and Emergency medicine physician, Baystate Medical Center, Massachusetts
Class of 2021
- Parvati Singh, MD – Sleep Medicine clinical fellowship at University of Pennsylvania
Class of 2020
- Channing Hui, DO – critical care position in San Jose at Regional Medical Center
- Mohammad Arabiat, MD – current pulmonary fellow at the Medical Center at Bowling Green, Affiliated with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Class of 2018
- Adeel Abbasi, MD – current T32 research fellow through Brown University
- Nader Azab, MD – critical care attending at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2016
- Keith Corl, MD – Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University and critical care attending at Rhode Island Hospital
- Abdullah Chahin, MD – Attending critical care and infectious disease physician at South County Hospital in Wakefield, RI
Medical Education
Our goal is to provide an educational environment which fosters the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, skills, clinical judgment and professional attitude that is essential to the practice of Critical Care Medicine. As such, the core didactics curriculum is designed to complement clinical rotations to provide a comprehensive educational experience during fellowship.
The curriculum includes:
- Core Clinical Rotations in Medical Critical Care Units, with electives in subspecialty critical care units (neurology ICU, surgical/trauma ICU, and cardiac care unit).
- Fellow’s conferences (refer to expandable section for more details)
- Supported attendance at a national or international conference affiliated with critical care medicine. Fellow’s frequently attend the annual American Thoracic Society Conference, annual CHEST conference, and the annual congress of Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Other educational opportunities offered include: an annual and funded 2-year training period at the University Hospital in Tubingen, Germany; opportunities to run teaching conferences and sessions for residents and trainees; support to attend career specific training conferences and sessions; and more.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| July 9 | Difficult Airway Course | |
| July 12 | Lung Cancer/Nodule Management | Andrew Foderaro, MD |
| July 13 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| July 14 | Sleep Conference | Alice Bonitati, MD |
| July 15 | PFT/Broncoprovication | Dennis McCool, MD |
| July 16 | Bronchoscopy | Andrew Foderaro, MD |
| July 19 | Pulmonary Rehab | Linda Nici, MD |
| July 20 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| July 21 | ILD | Barry Shea, MD |
| July 22 | Cystic Fibrosis | Michael Blundin, MD |
| July 23 | COPD | John Ladetto, MD |
| July 26 | Pneumonia | Andrew Levinson, MD |
| July 27 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| July 28 | Pulmonary Embolism | Christopher Mullin, MD |
| July 29 | Pulmonary Hypertension | James Klinger, MD |
| July 30 | Tuberculosis | E. Jane Carter, MD |
| August 2 | Asthma | Nicholas Ward, MD |
| August 3 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| August 4 | Intro to ICU/RSI | Jason Aliotta, MD |
| August 5 | RHC/Hemodynamics | Christopher Mullin, MD |
| August 6 | Sepsis | James Simmons, MD |
| August 9 | No Lecture – Victory Day | |
| August 10 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| August 11 | Sleep Conference | Katherine Sharkey, MD |
| August 12 | Mechanical Ventilation I | Mitchell Levy, MD |
| August 13 | Mechanical Ventilation II | Mitchell Levy, MD |
| August 16 | ECMO | Corey Ventetulo, MD |
| August 17 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| August 18 | ARDS | Gerardo Carino, MD |
| August 19 | Ultrasound Course | |
| August 20 | Ultrasound Course | |
| August 23 | End of Life Care | Mitchell Levy, MD |
| August 24 | No Lecture – VA Clinic | |
| August 25 | How to Give a Scientific Talk | Debasree Banerjee, MD |
| August 26 | Ethics | Nicholas Ward, MD |
Many conferences are provided by our division and in concert with other divisions, and all fellows are welcome to join any conference that they’re able to attend on a given rotation. All conferences are shared between the 2-year critical care medicine program and the combined, 3-year pulmonary and critical care medicine program. Most are provided weekly unless stated otherwise. For critical care fellows, notable conferences include…
Critical Care Conference
This conference provides twice a week group review of landmark critical care publications while fellows are on rotations at the Miriam Hospital, in order to provide an evidence-based framework to clinical decision making.
Combined Medical/Surgical/Trauma Critical Care Rounds
This conference affords fellows the opportunity to present cases in a interdisciplinary context. The conference usually centers around a case presentation that highlights the different approach between medical and surgical critical care. The strong collaborative relationship between medical and surgical/trauma critical care is one of the clear strengths of the program.
Ultrasound Conference
This conference provides the time and space for formal point of care ultrasound curriculum and often includes real-time cases in the ICU.
Brown City-wide Chest Conference
This conference is held every Friday at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and functions as our division’s Grand Rounds. At this conference, one attending and one fellow each present a pulmonary and/or critical care topic of their choosing with a focus on presentation of evidence, and it is attended by physicians from across Rhode Island.
Journal Club
This is held once a month at the home of Dr. Mitchell Levy (Division Chief) where two fellows each present one recent publication to the fellowship and faculty, in order to teach appropriate critical appraisal of literature.
Pulmonary Conferences
Tumor Board at Rhode Island Hospital
Interstitial Lung Disease Conference (twice a month)
Brown City-Wide Chest Conference
Sleep Case Conference (prior to sleep clinic)
Fellow's Didactic Conference
Journal Club (monthly)
Radiology Case Conference
Critical Care & Medicine Conferences
Medicine Grand Rounds
MICU/ED Combined Conference (monthly)
MICU/SICU Combined Case Conference
Ultrasound Conference (monthly)
Critical Care Conference (twice a week)
Physiology Conference with University of Limerick Collaboration
MICU M&M Conference (monthly)
Research Conferences
Brown Investigators of Respiratory Disease (BIRDs) Conference (monthly)
CardioPulmonary Vascular Biology and Vascular Research Laboratory Meeting
Brown Pulmonary Research Conference
Brown University is committed to maintaining an inclusive environment for the entire Brown community, and our division and its associated training programs specifically seek to promote an atmosphere of respect and facilitate a sense of belonging in all interactions, whether virtual or in person. To that end, we have multiple resources for faculty and trainees to help manage challenges related to racism, diversity, equity, justice and inclusion, as well as formal curriculum for our group in the forms of Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine (BRIM) training and the JEDI curriculum, of which Dr. Banerjee of our division is the director.
- Brown University Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity
- Brown Advocates for Social Change and Equity (BASCE)
- Brown Minority Housestaff Association (BMHA)
- Brown University – Diversity & Multicultural Affairs
- Brown University Internal Medicine Diversity Webpage
- Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine (BRIM Initiative)
Clinical Experience
https://www.youtube.com/embed/MW811rC9PKs
Graduate Medical Education
Who We Are
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Brown University aims to produce physicians who have the practical skills and knowledge to practice critical care medicine independently upon graduation. In order to accomplish this, we have created a fellowship with a robust schedule during the two years of training includes multiple different ICU experiences, an escalating degree of independence throughout training, and ample opportunity for practicing and perfecting invasive procedural skills.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| July | Elective | TMH ICU |
| August | TMH ICU | TMH ICU |
| September | RIH Neurology ICU | RIH Trauma ICU |
| October | Research | Elective |
| November | 2 Weeks of RIH MICU; Night Float | 2 Weeks of RIH MICU; Night Float |
| December | TMH ICU | TMH ICU |
| January | 2 Weeks of RIH MICU; Night Float | 2 Weeks of RIH MICU; Night Float |
| February | Research | Research |
| March | RIH MICU | RIH MICU |
| April | TMH ICU | TMH ICU |
| May | RIH MICU | RIH MICU |
| June | Research | Research |
- Sepsis
- Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Extra-corporeal Life Support (ECLS) – ECMO center of excellence
- End-of-life Care in the ICU
- Post-surgical critical care
- Point-of-care Ultrasound
The Miriam Hospital
The Miriam is a 247-bed, acute care general hospital in Providence and is a major teaching site for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The ICU is a 16-bed, combined medical/surgical/cardiac unit which provides a very broad educational experience with an emphasis on collaborative rounds with these varied services. In addition to the medically ill patients, cardiac patients in this unit provide extensive experience in cardiogenic shock, intra-aortic balloon pumps, hemodynamic monitoring, and pacing. Extensive experience with critically ill post-operative patients is also obtained here. Fellows also work with anesthesia in operating rooms to gain hands-on and practical airway experience outside of their ICU rotations.
Rhode Island Hospital
A 721-bed tertiary care hospital with a broad spectrum of pulmonary and critical care diseases, it is the state’s largest hospital and the third largest hospital in New England. The 18-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit at Rhode Island Hospital has a high turnover of acutely ill patients with multi-system failure and was recognized by the National Coalition on Healthcare as one of the ten best in the country. It serves as a referral center for many hospitals throughout southern New England and is an ECMO center of excellence. Our MICU serves as the intensive care unit for Woman’s & Infants hospital, which provides the fellow with important experience with critically ill obstetric patients. There are numerous other specialty critical care units staffed by specialists in other divisions that provide elective opportunities as well, including a cardiothoracic ICU, neurology/neurosurgery ICU, trauma, surgical ICUs, and a coronary care unit. Our division also staffs a respiratory intermediate care unit that manages complex respiratory patients as well.
Research
Research during fellowship enhances scholarly development, provides a foundation for logical and critical thinking, and encourages lifelong habits of continuing scholarship post-training. The program’s goal is to provide ample opportunities to plan and perform research related to critical care, in order to present findings at research conferences, publish results in leading medical journal, and foster an interest in a career in academic medicine.
Beginning in the first year of training, fellows are mentored in the choosing of research projects. Research can be done at the Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, the Providence VAMC, and it is occasionally done off-site at affiliated labs. Our program’s broad connections through Brown University and the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine provide flexibility to help fellows pursue areas of interest at the clinical, translational, and basic science level during their training. Fellows are also frequently involved in case write-ups and review articles or book chapters, if interested.
In cases where fellows wish to stay on for additional years of research, funding can often be obtained through the division, which can offer a T32-funded research training fellowship when appropriate.
Active Areas of Research Include:
- Sepsis (mechanisms and treatment)
- Knowledge translation
- Acute lung injury
- Pulmonary vascular disease (mechanisms and treatment)
- Pulmonary vascular permeability and endothelial dysfunction
- Extracorporeal life support
- End-of-life care in the ICU
- Ethical and practical aspects of rationing medical care
- Health-related quality of life
- Role of Stem Cells, progenitor cells and extracellular vesicles in lung injury repair”
Please refer to our Research Programs page for more in-depth information regarding the diverse and varied research opportunities available through our division.
Below are publications which one or more recent fellows worked on or completed during their fellowship at Brown.
Mareril Wheeler, MD – Graduated 2024
- Kim KW, Wheeler M, Schneider F, Carino G. Mechanical Thrombectomy for a Clot in Transit With Adherence to the Tricuspid Valve. Cureus. 2023 Oct 7;15(10):e46636. doi: 10.7759/cureus.46636. PMID: 37936985; PMCID: PMC10627110.
Sneha Lakshman, MD – Graduated 2023
- Banerjee D, Aijaz S, Nassikas NJ, Singh P, Lakshman S, Boyd C, Brown Q, Mathew A, Rosen RK, Lantini R, Andrea SB, Walsh SR, Gartman EJ, Levinson A, Carino G, Braun L. Perspectives on Using Race in Pulmonary Function Testing: A National Survey Fellows and Program Directors. Respir Care. 2024 Jun 25:respcare.11734. doi: 10.4187/respcare.11734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38918025.
Ravi Sarpatwari, MD – Graduated 2022
- Snegovskikh D, Kendall MC, Levinson A, Sarpatwari R, Pisano D, Görlinger K, De Oliveira G. Thromboelastometry Predicts Thromboembolic Events, Hospital Length of Stay, and Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 Infection and Mild Hypoxemia: A Prospective Observational Study. J Blood Med. 2022;13:363-372
Channing Hui, DO – Graduated 2020
- Yee D, Fu D, Hui C, Dharmadhikari N, Carino G. A Rare Case of 4 Ps: Bilateral Pneumothoraces and Pneumomediastinum in Pneumocystis Pneumonia. R I Med J (2013). 2020;103(5):52-54. Published 2020 Jun 1.
- Hui C, Brodsky RA, Haines C. Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism With Right Heart Strain in a Patient With Immune Thrombocytopenia-A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020;36(4):e227-e228.
- McCoy, J. , Eisenstein, R. , Hui, C. , Corcoran, G. , Kilker, C. , Ohman-Strickland, P. , Merlin, M. and Lacy, C. (2019) Point-of-Care Testing vs. Laboratory Testing during High Patient Volume Situations. Open Journal of Emergency Medicine, 7, 49-56.
- Hui C, Cagle G, Carino G. Red Blood Cell Transfusions in the ICU. R I Med J (2013). 2019;102(10):26-29. Published 2019 Dec 2.
- Hui C, Dhakal A, Bauza GJ. Dumping Syndrome. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020.
- Hui C, Radbel JM. Diabetes Insipidus. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020.
- Hui C, Tadi P, Patti L. Ischemic Stroke. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020.
Muhammad Arabiat, MD – Graduated 2020
- DeCarli K, Arabiat M, Ward C, Levinson A, Carino G. A Case of Vaping-Associated Lung Injury in Rhode Island. R I Med J (2013). 2020;103(1):38-41. Published 2020 Feb 3.
- Arabiat M, Foderaro AE, Levinson AT. Lung Ultrasound for Diagnosing Patients with Severe Dyspnea and Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure. R I Med J (2013). 2019;102(10):34-38. Published 2019 Dec 2.
Adeel Abbasi – Graduated 2018
- Abbasi A, Devers C, Sodha NR, Ventetuolo CE. Extracorporeal Life Support in Adults with Acute Respiratory Failure: Current Evidence-Based Practices. R I Med J (2013). 2019;102(10):39-42. Published 2019 Dec 2.
- Abbasi A, Devers C, Muratore CS, Harrington C, Ventetuolo CE. Examining the role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients following suspected or confirmed suicide attempts: A case series. J Crit Care. 2018;44:445-449.
- Abbasi A, Nayeemuddin M, Azab N, et al (Corl K). Respiratory Variation in Carotid Artery Peak Systolic Velocity Is Unable to Predict Fluid Responsiveness in Spontaneously Breathing Critically Ill Patients When Assessed by Novice Physician Sonologists [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 29]. J Intensive Care Med. 2020;885066620934392.
Nader Azab – Graduated 2018
- Corl KA, Dado C, Agarwal A, et al (Azab N). A modified Montpellier protocol for intubating intensive care unit patients is associated with an increase in first-pass intubation success and fewer complications. J Crit Care. 2018;44:191-195.
- Gerardo Carino, Anton Edwards, Nader Azab, Amanpreet Kaur, Andrew Levinson, Filipe Monteiro. Late Breaking Abstract – The impact of errors on members of the ERS Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly European Respiratory Journal Sep 2017, 50 (suppl 61) OA2892.
- Edwards, A, Azab N, and Carino, G. Thiamine Deficiency Mimicking Guillan-Barre Syndrome. CHEST, 2017, Volume 152, Issue 4, A287.
Keith Corl, MD – Graduated 2016
- Corl KA, Sears WN, Gregg SC, Lindquist DG. Resuscitative thoracotomy for nontraumatic pericardial tamponade: case reports and review of the literature. Am J Emerg Med. 2015;33(4).
- Corl KA, George NR, Romanoff J, et al. Inferior vena cava collapsibility detects fluid responsiveness among spontaneously breathing critically ill patients. J Crit Care. 2017;41:130-137.