Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)
Celina Yong, MD, MBA, MSc
Celina Yong, MD, MBA, MSc, is Director of Interventional Cardiology at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford. Dr. Yong completed her medical training at Stanford School of Medicine and her internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at Stanford, including a year as Chief Fellow. As a Marshall Scholar, she completed a Masters in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Oxford.
Dr. Yong’s current research focuses on innovating scalable technologies to reduce inequities in cardiovascular care. She is interested in understanding how to improve the quality of cardiovascular treatment among Veterans, including access to life-saving minimally invasive procedures. She is also focused on identifying the role of health-related social needs on cardiovascular outcomes. She is actively involved in clinical trials of novel devices for percutaneous coronary and structural intervention at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center. Dr. Yong is supported by a VA HSR&D CDA on optimizing access, appropriateness, and quality of minimally invasive procedures for Veterans.
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