Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship

Program Director: Kyle Miletic, M.D. 

Letter of introduction

Thank you for your interest in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital. We designed our program around the needs of our fellows, and our goal remains simple: to train the best cardiothoracic surgeons in the country. Our division performs thousands of major cardiac and thoracic cases each year across a full spectrum of disease, giving fellows early and consistent exposure to the most complex pathology in the field rather than a narrow slice of it.

Fellows train alongside a program with genuine depth in the areas defining modern cardiothoracic practice. Our heart and lung transplant program is one of the most established and comprehensive in Michigan, and our team continues to push the field forward, including performing the state's first beating-heart transplant. On the aortic side, fellows gain experience across the full continuum of open, endovascular, and hybrid aortic repair, working closely with skilled cardiac and vascular faculty in a collaborative team to provide comprehensive aortic care. Robotics is similarly woven throughout training rather than treated as an occasional add-on: fellows build real case volume in robotic-assisted valve repair, robotic and minimally invasive coronary bypass, and robotic thoracic resections for lung, mediastinal and foregut disease.

What sets the experience apart, though, is the range of settings in which fellows train. Henry Ford Hospital is a large academic medical center with an extensive graduate medical education presence, offering the case complexity, subspecialty faculty, and research infrastructure of a major referral center. At the same time, fellows can rotate through our affiliate hospitals, where they see how cardiothoracic surgery is practiced in a community setting — different pace, different patient population, different day-to-day rhythm. That combination is intentional: a graduate of our program should feel equally prepared to join a high-volume academic practice or a community program, because they've already done both.

Our division is also proud to be one of the most diverse cardiothoracic surgery fellowships in the country — work that has been recognized locally and nationally.