Alan Yeung, MD

Clinical Focus

• Cardiology (Heart)
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Chronic Total Occlusions
• Complex Coronary Angioplasty

Administrative Appointments

• Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine (2008 - present)
• Chief(Clinical), Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine (2000 - present)
• Director, Interventional Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine (1998 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Li Ka Shing Professor, Stanford University (2008)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Tomohiko Teramoto

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States. Our group is interested in studying both the early and late phases of atherosclerosis so that we can better develop prevention and treatment strategies. Our current studies include:

1) non-invasive methods of assessing vascular endothelial function so that we can better stratefy high risk coronary artery disease patients.

2) structural and functional studies of atherosclerosis in transplant coronary artery disease patients in order to define the the relationship between the two.

3) intravascular ultrasound studies to define the time-course in the devlopment of transplant coronary disease.

4) development of novel techniques to devliver drug imbedded particles into the atherosclerotic wall.

5) study the restenosis process in a vivo pig model.

Clinical Trials

• FACILITATED ANTEGRADE STEERING TECHNIQUE IN CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSIONS (FAST-CTOs) CLINICAL STUDY Recruiting
• Safety and efficacy of using PROCHYMAL (a stem cell product) to treat acute heart attacks Recruiting
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Recruiting
• Sex Differences in Coronary Pathophysiology Recruiting

Publications

• Imaging gene expression in human mesenchymal stem cells: from small to large animals. Willmann JK, Paulmurugan R, Rodriguez-Porcel M, Stein W, Brinton TJ, Connolly AJ, Nielsen CH, Lutz AM, Lyons J, Ikeno F, Suzuki Y, Rosenberg J, Chen IY, Wu JC, Yeung AC, Yock P, Robbins RC, Gambhir SS. Radiology. 2009; 252 (1): 117-27
• The pre-clinical animal model in the translational research of interventional cardiology. Suzuki Y, Yeung AC, Ikeno F. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2009; 2 (5): 373-83
• Development of animal model for calcified chronic total occlusion. Suzuki Y, Oyane A, Ikeno F, Lyons JK, Yeung AC. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2009; 74 (3): 468-75
• Effect of rapamycin therapy on coronary artery physiology early after cardiac transplantation. Sinha SS, Pham MX, Vagelos RH, Perlroth MG, Hunt SA, Lee DP, Valantine HA, Yeung AC, Fearon WF. Am Heart J. 2008; 155 (5): 889.e1-6
• The importance of pre-clinical animal testing in interventional cardiology. Suzuki Y, Yeung AC, Ikeno F. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2008; 91 (5): 348-60