Madeleine Steel Travel Fellowship  

The Madeleine Steel fellowship is an annual fellowship (£10,000) awarded on a competitive basis to doctors (trainees and consultants) and allied professionals (including nurses, clinical physiologists etc) working in congenital heart disease in the United Kingdom. The award is used to enable the holder to travel to a centre of excellence in North America to gain further experience, learn a new technique and to conduct research.

Candidates will be assessed on the overall quality of the program they have planned, new skills or research experience that will be gained, their career trajectory to date and the potential of this grant to further develop their career and to improve clinical practice in the UK.

The application window is open from Jan 1st until the first Monday (17:00 hrs) in May each year. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered. Applicants will be informed of the outcome before the end of July 2024.

Applicants should send details of their application (by e-mail) to the Scientific Secretary (contact details below) on a maximum of 2 A4 pages (Arial font 12). The application should include:

  • A description of the fellowship: its goals and how it could improve UK clinical practice.

  • The total amount of funding required and a breakdown of it will be spent.

  • A letter of support from the host supervisor at the north American centre.

  • A letter of support from your current UK clinical/research supervisor.

  • A copy of your CV.

Applicants should already be a current member of BCCA (verification checks will be carried out following submission).

Scientific Secretary

British Congenital Cardiac Association
9 Fitzroy Square
London
W1T 5HW

Email: bcca@bcs.com

Previous recipients of the fellowship award

  • Dr Jayant Kakarla

    • Training in ACHD and EP Fellowship at the Peter Monk Cardiac Centre, Toronto

    1. Dr William Regan

      • Clinical observership with the Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias Programme, Boston Children’s Hospital

    2. Dr Sok-Leng Kang

      • Training in lymphatics imaging and intervention at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

    3. Dr Barry O’Callaghan

      • Clinical fellowship in Congenital Interventional Cardiology at the Children’s Hospital Colorado

    4. Dr Akintayo Adesokan

      • Fellowship in Interventional Catheterisation at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto

  • Dr Stefano Bartoletti

    • ACHD-EP Fellowship, Montreal Heart Institute

  • Dr Phuoc Duong

    • Clinical observership with the Complex Biventricular Repair Programme at Boston Children’s Hospital

    1. Dr Srinivas Ananth-Narayan

      1. Training in myocardial parametric mapping, The Toronto Hospital for Sick Children

    2. Dr Sian Chivers

      • Training on analysis of the fetal ECG, Columbia University, New York.

    1. Dr Henry Chubb

      • Further sub-specialty training in Interventional Electrophysiology Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford, CA, USA as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Senior Electrophysiology Fellow Item description

    1. Dr Sadia Quyam

      • Cardiac Critical Care and Pulmonary Hypertension, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Canada

    2. Dr Michael Quaill

      • Multimodality Imaging, University of Yale

    3. Dr Hannah Bellsham-Revell

      • Clinical Observership, ECHO and MRI departments, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

    1. Dr Guido Pieles

      • Combined research/ clinical fellowship in advanced echocardiography and molecular science. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

    2. Dr Alyson Walker

      • Paediatric cardiac anaesthesia fellowship, Texas Children’s Hospital

    1. Dr James Bentham

      • Interventional Paediatric Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital

    2. Dr Beverley Tsai-Goodman

      • Fetal Cardiac MRI Techniques, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

    1. Dr Tarique Hussain

      • Training in Diagnostic Imaging and Cardiac MRI, Toronto

    2. Dr Tosin Majekodunmi

      • Training in Structural Congenital Intervention, Toronto

    1. Dr Dominic Hares

      • Training in paediatric electrophysiology and pacemaker insertion. The Toronto Hospital for Sick Children

    1. Dr Damien Kenny

      • Training in Catheter Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease, University of Chicago Medical Center

    1. Dr Jonathan Windram

      • Training in Adult Congenital Cardiology, Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre

    1. Dr Gareth Morgan

      • Training in congenital heart intervention, Toronto Children’s Hospital

    1. Dr Anna Seale

      • Training in complex Echocardiography techniques 3-D and 4-D, Boston Children’s Hospital

    1. Dr S Lucy Roche

      • Assessment of RV function In Tetralogy of Fallot, Toronto General and Children’s Hospital