Dr. Celina Yong

Biography

Celina Yong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center. Her expertise lies in health services research, focusing on utilizing large database analyses to develop innovative and scalable approaches aimed at enhancing the quality of cardiovascular care. In clinical practice, she performs complex percutaneous coronary interventions and transcatheter aortic valve replacements. Celina is actively involved in clinical trials that assess the effectiveness of novel devices and pharmacologic therapies for cardiovascular diseases. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and leads the VA-Cardiovascular Trials Consortium. Throughout her career, Celina has co-authored national guidelines and scientific statements, notably for the ACC/AHA/SCAI Coronary Revascularization Guidelines. Before joining Stanford, she completed her MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at the London School of Economics, alongside an MBA from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. Celina completed her MD at Stanford and underwent her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, along with cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at Stanford, where she was Chief Fellow. Her research interests center on improving outcomes in cardiovascular interventions, and she is involved in multiple clinical trials aimed at addressing disparities in treatment and outcomes for underrepresented populations in cardiovascular medicine.

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