Introducing Erik G Stilp, MD, FACC, RPVI, former resident and fellow of Yale Department of Internal Medicine. Stilp completed his fellowship in 2014.
Where are you now?
After finishing internal medicine residency, IM Chief Residency, cardiology/interventional cardiology/peripheral vascular fellowships at Yale, I returned home to Milwaukee, WI to join the cardiovascular section at Ascension-Columbia St. Mary’s Hospitals and Clinics. I currently serve as Service Chair for Heart and Vascular, and Medical Director for vascular medicine. My practice focuses on the endovascular treatment of peripheral artery disease, specifically critical limb ischemia.
What do you love about your career?
I love leaning on all I learned from many teachers, most especially my friend and mentor Dr. Carlos Mena-Hurtado.
How did Yale prepare you for your career?
Friends, mentors, patients, papers, successes, and failures are abundant at Yale. I call on many of them often in practice today.
What surprised you most about your field/area of expertise?
The boundaries in limb salvage continue to be pushed. New options for patients at risk for significant amputations emerge. And all of it can be even more exhausting than residency and fellowship.
What is your fondest memory?
There are so many, but suddenly being quizzed as the expert in complex aortic disease on a panel at an international vascular conference by my mentors, before finishing their fellowship in said disease state may top them all. A close second was waking up ill, suddenly a patient in my own institution, with my 3 senior mentors at my bedside.
The DIM spotlight is a feature as part of the DIM Digest, highlighting alumni, former trainees, and faculty of the Department of Internal Medicine.