Yes. The university of Minnesota for example has a 3 year combined ACGME accredited vascular+NIR fellowship. Used to be offered in certain years only, but they now take 1 person minimum per year on this 3 year track. The good thing is even as stroke fellow (PGY-5) you rotate in NIR a fair bit as it’s a combined track- and because of the extra time the fellows become really proficient with things outside of thrombectomies, aneurysms, bleeds.
Another good example of a combined track is JFK’s 4 year stroke/NCC/NIR track, it’s an extra year though but you get triple board certified which is sweet. They have some pretty decent faculty too. Since these are neurology specific tracks (therefore not open to radiology or neurosurgery), graduates of these residencies essentially have dibs on the NIR if they wish to pursue it (internal recruitment).
The best residencies for doing NIR would be UPMC, UMiami, Emory, however, to my knowledge these do not have combined tracks like Minnesota or JFK does and are slightly harder to get. In practice, it depends. UMiami NIR is fairly tough to get even for in house neuro residents, UPMC on the other hand seems to be a bit easier (based on the residents there I’m in touch with) as their neuro department has full control over NIR. But technically not a combined track to the best of my understanding.
The bigger question is if you’re okay with the nature and lifestyle of NIR. I initially built my RoL around NIR opportunities (that and neuromodulation were my two big interests), and have been lucky enough to get a program where I could scrub into the angio suite in PGY1 itself, but I am not sure anymore about the field. The complications are pretty devastating to stomach.