There are also significant opportunities for clinical research in heart failure and cardiac transplantation.  Since January 2008, the ACMC Heart Transplant Center has already performed five heart transplants with excellent outcomes and expects to perform 15-20 transplants annually.

The selected candidate must be board certified in cardiovascular disease and have a strong heart transplant/heart failure background with a primary focus in cardiac transplantation.   The candidate should also meet the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria for transplant cardiologists.

ACMC is part of Advocate Health Care, Chicago’s largest provider of health care and one of the nation’s leaders in VAD technology, including destination programs. Other notable accomplishments include:

• The largest provider of cardiac surgery in Illinois.
• First in the United States to implant a HeartMate2 LVAD for destination therapy.
• One of the top five hospitals nationally for LVAD surgeries and the first program in Illinois (2nd program nationally) to receive Joint Commission disease specific VAD certification.
• First in Illinois to perform robotically assisted mitral-valve repair surgery.
• Perform more than 5,000 procedures each year in our cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs.
• Recipient of Joint Commission disease specific certification for the treatment of patients with congestive heart failure.

For additional information about this outstanding opportunity, please contact 

Geetha Bhat, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.C
Medical Director, Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Device Program
geetha.bhat-MD@advocatehealth.com  
708-346-4044, extension 16

AdvocateChrist Medical Center is a 695-bed, not-for-profit teaching, research and referral medical center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. It also is home to Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, one of the most comprehensive providers of pediatric care in the state. The medical center is a leader in cardiology, pediatrics, surgical services, oncology, women's services and emergency medicine. Christ Medical Center is part of Advocate Health Care, one of the nation's leading integrated health care systems. 

Christ Medical Center has a medical staff of more than 900 physicians, representing more than 60 specialties and subspecialties. Among its benchmark services, the medical center offers complete medical and surgical services for pediatric patients. More than 4,000 babies are born at the medical center each year. As a state-designated Level III perinatal center, the highest designation, Christ Medical Center provides critically ill infants the assistance they need to begin and sustain life.

Christ Medical Center also is a state-designated Level I trauma center, providing trauma patients with the most sophisticated emergency medical care. The emergency department treats more than 72,000 patients annually, including more trauma patients than any other Illinois hospital.

Advocate Christ Medical Center provides a full spectrum of adult and pediatric cardiovascular services. The medical center's program leads Chicago land in the number of patients served. Cardiac surgeons performed 1,306 adult open-heart surgeries and 369 pediatric open-heart surgeries in 2006.

Oak Lawn is located in the suburbs of Chicago, the third largest city in the United States. Chicago is a top tourist destination with world renowned shopping, dining, museums, architecture, theater, music, sports and more.  Located on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan it home to nearly 3 million people.