Bio
Celina Yong, MD, MBA, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, is an Associate Professor in the Stanford School of Medicine and Director of Interventional Cardiology at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center. Dr. Yong leads an active health services research program focused on using novel scalable approaches to understand and resolve inequities in cardiovascular care, as well as in the workforce. In her clinical practice, Dr. Yong performs complex coronary and structural procedures and is actively involved in clinical trials of novel device and drug therapies for cardiovascular disease.
Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Dr. Yong completed an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and MBA from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. She completed her MD at Stanford, followed by internal medicine residency at University of California, San Francisco and cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at Stanford, including serving as Chief Fellow.