Department welcomes four new clinical faculty

August 1, 2022

The Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery is excited to welcome four clinical faculty to the department. Please join us in welcoming Drs. Irmina Elliott, Brandon Guenthart, and Yihan Lin, who will join as Clinical Assistant Professors, and Dr. Pierre Theodore as Clinical Associate Professor.

Dr. Irmina Elliott

Dr. Elliott completed her General Surgery Residency at the University of California, Los Angeles and recently a Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship in Thoracic at Stanford.

Dr. Brandon Guenthart

Dr. Guenthart specializes in heart and lung transplantation and completed his General Surgery Residency at New York-Presbyterian Cornell Medical Center before continuing to a Transplant Clinical Instructor Fellowship at Stanford. 

Dr. Yihan Lin

Dr. Lin completed her residency in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Colorado and is a former Harvard Medical School Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow.

Dr. Pierre Theodore

Dr. Theodore is a thoracic surgeon and has been the Vice President of Global Public Health at Johnson & Johnson since 2017 and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford for the past two years.