Vascular Surgery Fellowship

Become An Outstanding Vascular Surgeon

We develop outstanding vascular surgeons with the knowledge and skills to build productive and fulfilling careers as clinicians, educators, researchers, and leaders within the field. We strive to provide this training in a diverse, inclusive, and collegial environment in line with Baystate's mission to improve the health of the people in our communities every day. 

Learn At One Of The Busiest Vascular Centers In New England

As one of the busiest vascular centers in all of New England, we provide comprehensive training in all aspects of vascular care. This includes extensive experience in both open and endovascular interventions for peripheral artery disease and aneurysmal disease, including complex aortic endovascular intervention, in addition to carotid disease, venous disease, and vascular lab interpretation. We routinely perform more than 750 major vascular operations annually. Our facilities are state of the art with two hybrid vascular operating rooms and modern portable imaging technology. We also have a strong general surgery residency and undergraduate medical education which affords our fellows the opportunity to hone their teaching and research skills.

Develop your teaching and research skills

Our strong surgery residency and undergraduate medical education - both part of the UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate - allow you to develop your teaching and research skills alongside developing your clinical skills. 

Baystate Medical Center's Facilities

Baystate Medical Center, located in Springfield, MA, is a 716-bed tertiary care facility serving a population of approximately 1 million in western Massachusetts, southern Vermont and northern Connecticut.

  • As the area's only Level-I Adult/Level-II Pediatric Trauma Center, BMC evaluates approximately 3,000 patients and admits ~2,000 patients per year.
  • Our Intensive Care Unit was awarded the Beacon Award for Excellence in Critical Care by the AACN for each of the past 5 years.
  • We were designated a Thomson Reuters® Top 100 Hospital, Major Teaching Hospital in the US for the third time in 2011.
  • The Baystate Simulation Center and Goldberg Surgical Skills Laboratory is an American College of Surgeons accredited level I comprehensive education institute.

Program-at-a-glance

Meet our team

Program Director:

Matthew Kronick MD, FACS

Program Coordinator:

Natalie Gendron | natalie.gendron@baystatehealth.org | 413-794-2971

Chief of Vascular Surgery, Assistant Professor of Surgery UMass - Baystate:

Neal Hadro MD, FACS

Vascular Lab director, Assistant Professor of Surgery UMass - Baystate:

Marc Norris MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery UMass - Baystate:

Avery Ching MD, FACS

Other faculty:

M. Irfan Ali, MD

Amanda Kravetz MD

Hazel Marecki MD

By the numbers

Program Metrics

  • Length of fellowship: 2 years
  • Number of fellows per year: 1
  • Number of Faculty: 6

Department Metrics

Level-I Adult/Level-II Pediatric Trauma Center evaluates ~ 3,000 patients | admits ~ 2,000 patients per year
All faculty have appointments at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate
Additional education programs: Surgery Residency | Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship | Breast Surgery Fellowship | Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Baystate Medical Center Metrics

Number of hospital beds: 716
Number of residency programs: 10
Number of fellowship programs: 26

Fellow benefits & facilities
  • We have attempted to maintain salaries in the 75th percentile nationally, and here in western Massachusetts, we enjoy a lower cost of living than in major urban areas. View our complete list of salaries and benefits.
  • 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
  • Disability/Malpractice/Health/Dental/Life Insurance
  • Comprehensive electronic medical record
  • Well-supplied, on-campus hospital library with 8 librarians and robust e-medicine resources (Up-to-Date, Ovid, Decker’s curriculum, AAST membership, etc.)
Curriculum summary

The fellows will rotate between 2 rotations in 3-month blocks.

The first rotation focuses on managing the inpatient vascular surgery service. The second rotation focuses on outpatient vascular care with a fellows clinic.

The curriculum also includes:

  • A weekly pre-operative case conference
  • Monthly morbidity and mortality conference
  • A journal club
  • A biweekly vascular surgery educational lecture
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