Affiliate Hospitals
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA
VA Palo Alto Health Care System is a teaching hospital providing a full range of patient care services with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. Comprehensive health care is provided in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care.
An affiliation with the Stanford University School of Medicine provides a rich academic environment including medical training for physicians in virtually all specialties and subspecialties. Over 1,300 University residents, interns, and students are trained each year.
Administrative Contacts
For Dr. Joseph Shrager: Donna Yoshida | (650) 721-2086
For Dr. Leah Backhus: Cliff David | (650) 721-6400
For Drs. James Fann, Thomas Burdon, and Yihan Lin: Diane Starrett | (650) 723-8935
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Children's Hospital Central California
Fresno & Sacramento counties, CA
The Children's Hospital Central California Cardiothoracic Surgery Program provides the highest quality comprehensive intraoperative and post-operative care. The Children's Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery team is part of the Northern California regional congenital heart program, which includes physicians at Stanford University, Oakland Children's Hospitals as well as Sutter Hospital in Sacramento. Each year, the combined programs perform over 1,000 cardiothoracic operations which include the full spectrum of closed and open heart procedures. These include the simple and most complex repairs for newborns, infants, children, teenagers, and young adults with congenital cardiac defects and acquired cardiovascular disease.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
The Willson Heart Center at Children’s Hospital Central California
9300 Valley Children’s Place
Madera, CA 93636
(559) 353-6257
Sutter Medical Center
Sacramento, CA
Offering the largest pediatric open-heart surgery program in the area, Sutter Medical Center is a regional referral center for young heart patients. The program includes full diagnostic capabilities with both diagnostic and interventional heart catheterization services. The CCS-approved pediatric cardiac surgery program serves patients from throughout northern California and southern Oregon, and provides the complete range of procedures for infants through adolescents.
Stanford Faculty
Teimour Nasirov, MD, MBA, Medical Director
Frank Hanley, MD
Olaf Reinhartz, MD
Naruhito Watanabe, MD
Administrative Contact
Bobbie Melissa Simi
Clinical Administrator
2800 L Street, Suite 110
Sacramento, CA 95816
phone: (916) 340-0111
fax: (916) 340-0121
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) provides superior inpatient and outpatient care. The 524-bed hospital is recognized as providing a range of sophisticated specialty services. SCVMC is the only medical center in the region that provides some of these advanced services including a world-class Rehabilitation Center, Regional Burn Center, High-Risk Maternity Program, Trauma Center. The addition of the new state-of-the-art main hospital building adds to the advanced level of technology available at SCVMC.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is affiliated with nearby Stanford University School of Medicine, and with schools of nursing, allied health professional training and research centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. SCVMC also enjoys a fine reputation for carrying out its own medical education programs.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
Tracie Zarubi
Medical Administrative Associate
751 S. Bacom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 885-6191
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Santa Clara, CA
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center's cardiac surgeons perform a full array of adult cardiac surgical procedures, including coronary artery bypass, valve repair or replacement, aortic dissection and aneurysm repair, repair of adult cardiac anomalies, and surgical treatment of cardiac tumors. Our skilled and caring team includes board certified cardiac surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, and specialty trained nurse practitioners, physician assistants, RNs, and technicians. We work collaboratively with your cardiologist and other medical providers to assure the highest quality care.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
Diane Starrett
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 723-8935
Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center
Corvallis, OR
Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center and Stanford Health Care launched the Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Program in Corvallis, Oregon, in 2016. Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is one of four Level II trauma centers in Oregon, and this partnership will expand access to life-saving heart surgeries in Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
Diane Starrett
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 723-8935
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, CA
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley is located in Pleasanton, California. The hospital has 167 beds and serves the Tri-Valley and surrounding communities. The hospital has access to highly trained specialists, nurses, and an attentive support staff. Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley offers a variety of surgical procedures, which include "beating heart" surgery, as well as the MAZE procedure that corrects atrial fibrillation. In addition, the Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley team uses a minimally invasive endoscope procedure to remove the leg vein used in bypass surgery.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contacts
For Dr. Liou
Donna Yoshida
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 721-2086
For Drs. Currie and Longoria
Diane Starrett
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 723-8935
Stanford Health Care, Emeryville
Emeryville, CA
Stanford Health Care, Emeryville offers the East Bay community primary and specialty care in a compassionate and welcoming environment. We bring together the local attention you get from a community doctor with the specialized expertise of an academic medical center.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
Cliff David
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 721-6400
Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children
Honolulu, HI
Hawaii Pacific Health Heart Centers are home to a distinguished team of expert cardiologists who are setting the bar for cardiovascular care and cutting-edge technology for heart services in Hawaii. Our Heart Centers brings together four medical centers—Kapi'olani, Pali Momi, Straub, and Wilcox—that work together to diagnose and treat the full spectrum of heart and vascular conditions for all patients, from infants to those with advanced disease. Our faculty and attending physicians provide deep expertise across multiple specialties and conditions from congenital heart disease, women's heart health, structural and coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, hypertension, and cardiac rehabilitation.
Administrative Contact
Mayra Maneha
Administrative Secretary
1319 Punahou Street
Honolulu, HI 96826
(808) 983-8873
Mercy Medical Center Redding
Redding, CA
Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 267-bed hospital sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of Auburn, along with St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta. Our goal is to promote healing and wellness as well as to advocate for the poor. We deliver compassionate, high-quality health care to the people of the greater Redding area and surrounding North State communities.
The hospital has received the National Research Corporation's Consumer Choice Award for eight consecutive years. Additionally, Mercy Medical Center Redding was recently recognized by U.S. News & World Report for high performance in all five areas of adult treatment, including knee and hip replacement, heart failure, bypass surgery, and pulmonary disease. We've also been honored by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for our stroke program.
Mercy Medical Center Redding is part of the CommonSpirit system, which is one of the nation's largest health care systems with more than 142 hospitals in 21 states.
Stanford Faculty
Administrative Contact
Diane Starrett
Administrative Associate
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Falk Building
870 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 723-8935