UTHealth EP Heart Training Program

01/05/2026

The first day of class and the seats are full of eager students striving to achieve a career in the cardiac medical device industry! Orientation and fundamentals for 2 weeks and then into CRM.



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McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

12/16/2025

Our current class have all been hired!!! We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our next group of students starting in January. We can't wait to see them learn, mature and achieve careers in the cardiac medical device industry.



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McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

12/01/2025

We finished up the EP and SH portions of our program with a heart dissection and an ablation simulation. Thank you, Dr. Anne Dougherty, Jenna Hanson & Johnson & Johnson MedTech for your expertise and support!

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McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

11/14/2025

We've had a busy couple of weeks with Structural Heart and EP. Thank you Jon Haight and Adam Masse, RN with Abbott | Cardiovascular for the MitraClip and TriClip presentations. Thank you Solomon Sasa, CCDS with Boston Scientific for an EP presentation. Thank you Leonel Cantu with Edwards Lifesciences for a TAVR presentation. Thank you Holly Love and Adam Gonzales, MBA, BSDI, RT(R)(CT) ARRT with Medtronic Cardiac and Vascular for an EP presentation. We are very grateful!



https://med.uth.edu/epheart/

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

11/03/2025

Structural Heart curriculum is intertwined with the EP portion of the program. Our students get to attend the valve conference at Memorial Hermann Health System in the Texas Medical Center and listen to physicians and other Allied Health Professionals with UTHealth Interventional and Structural Heart Program discuss patient treatment options. They also learn from our SH instructor, Courtney McAlister, DNP in our training center.



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McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

10/14/2025

Thank you Hector Valenzuela of Abbott | Cardiovascular and Ami Vaughn, RN of Medtronic for outstanding presentations and demos of your TAVR technology! Our students are educated on CRM, EP and SH by physicians, tenured and certified clinical instructors and industry professionals in the Texas Medical Center.


https://med.uth.edu/epheart/

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

09/29/2025

We finished the CRM portion of the program with 3 programmer practical exams and a CRTD implant simulation. Amazing how much our students have learned in 10 weeks. 8 students have employment offers already and we're only at the half-way point. On to EP now!

https://med.uth.edu/epheart/

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

09/15/2025

Great presentations on the Boston Scientific S-ICD by Addison Spradlin and Clinical Study Design by Jeff Crouch and Stacey Doyal of Medtronic. Thank you all very much for educating our students.



https://med.uth.edu/epheart

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

09/02/2025

It's very gratifying to see a previous student come back as the topic expert for the Micra leadless pacemaker systems and the Aurora EV-ICD. Inspirational for the current group of students! Thank you James Townsend, BS, CCDS and Medtronic



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08/15/2025

Clinical observations in the Texas Medical Center, for CRM & EP, provide our students with technical and professional experiences critical to their careers. Learning from Physicians, industry professionals, and staff is invaluable.



https://med.uth.edu/epheart

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

08/01/2025

Week 3 of the program saw visits from 8 divisions of 5 top companies and 17 hiring managers. Our students are off to a great start pursuing careers! Thank you Abbott, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson MedTech and Medtronic.
https://med.uth.edu/epheart

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.

07/14/2025

A busy first week for our students. Orientation and IT support to cardiac anatomy/physiology/pathophysiology essentials capped off with a heart dissection. The journey's begun for careers in the electrophysiology industry.



https://med.uth.edu/epheart/

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston pursues excellence in education, research, and clinical care for the community.