Cardiothoracic Surgery

Affiliate Hospitals


Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has assembled a team of doctors, nurses and other health professionals who are specially trained to diagnose and treat infants, children and young adults with both congenital and acquired heart disease.

All our doctors use state-of-the art techniques to diagnose and treat all forms of congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children and adolescents. Our team is highly expert in echocardiography, including fetal and transesophegal echo, and along with Stanford engineers, is developing new techniques in 3-D echo, 3-D electron beam CT scan and MRI angiography. With these new technologies, most children no longer require invasive procedures such as cardiac catheterization for diagnosis. (Source: Children's Heart Center website)

Stanford Faculty: Frank Hanley, MD
V. Mohan Reddy, MD
Administrative Contact: Gillian Gaghan
Administrative Associate
300 Pasteur Drive, Falk Bldg. CVRB
Stanford, CA 94305-5407
(650) 723-5771

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VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS)

VA Palo Alto Hospital

VAPAHCS 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. (source: VA Palo Alto Health Care System website)

Stanford Faculty: Thomas Burdon, MD
James Fann, MD
Chuong Hoang, MD
Joseph Shrager, MD
Robert Robbins, MD
Administrative Contact: Angela Azure
Administrative Associate
300 Pasteur Drive, Falk Bldg. CVRB
Stanford, CA 94305-5407
(650) 724-0831

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Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

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. (source: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center website)

Stanford Faculty: Michael Fischbein, MD, PhD
Kai Ihnken, MD
Hari Mallidi, MD
Robert Robbins, MD
Administrative Contact: Tracie Zarubi, Administrative Associate - (408) 885-6191
Erlinda Means, Clinic Coordinator - (408) 885-3838
751 S. Bacom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128

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Saint Agnes Medical Center (Fresno)

Saint Agnes Medical Center

The Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Program at Saint Agnes provides the depth and support of an academic medical center committed to the advancement of high quality medical care and treatment for cardiovascular disease.

By bringing this elevated level of expertise to the Valley, local patients who might have had to travel to Stanford for treatment of complicated cases will not have to leave home to receive the very best in cardiovascular care. (source: Saint Agnes Medical Center website)

Stanford Faculty: J.W. Randolph Bolton, MD, PhD, Medical Director
Dave Ogden, MD
Robert Robbins, MD
Physician Assistant: Denise Aguilar, PA-C
David Reilly, PA-C
Administrative Contact: Karen Quinn, Clinic Coordinator
1381 E. Herndon Ave. #101
Fresno, CA 93720
(559) 436-6165

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El Camino Hospital (Mountain View)

El Camino Hospital

El Camino Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Mountain View, California, is located on a 41-acre campus in the heart of Silicon Valley. Consistently ranked as a leading hospital in the area, El Camino Hospital recently received the highest ranking in the Patients' Evaluation of Performance in California survey.  The hospital has received national recognition for several pioneering programs, in the areas of, cardiac treatment, radiation oncology and maternity. For more than forty years, El Camino Hospital has been distinguished by its high caliber staff and affiliated physicians, comprehensive and innovative services and a long history of responding to the needs of the community it serves.

The Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Program at El Camino Hospital was established in 2004 as a unique and innovative program to bring academic center medicine to community hospital patients.

Stanford Faculty: Ramin Beygui, MD, Medical Director
Michael Fischbein, MD, PhD
Kai Ihnken, MD
Hari Mallidi, MD
Bruce Reitz, MD
Robert Robbins, MD
Administrative Contact: Masey Lee
Clinic Coordinators
2490 Hospital Drive #303
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 988-7500

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Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland

Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland

The Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland includes an active cardiac surgery program, offering surgical options for all types of congenital heart disease. Intensive care specialists and anesthesiologists support the program to provide the best care possible for our surgical patients.

Services include evaluation and treatment for children with congenital or acquired cardiac or vascular anomalies. Consultation and surgical services provided in concert with Children’s Hospital Oakland Neonatology and Cardiology divisions. (source: Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland website)

Stanford Faculty: Olaf Reinhartz, MD, Medical Director
Frank Hanley, MD
V. Mohan Reddy, MD
Administrative Contact: Pediatric Cardiology Medical Group
747 52nd Street
Oakland, CA 94609
(510) 428-3294

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Children’s Hospital Central California (Fresno & Sacramento counties)

Children's Hospital Central California

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. (source: Children's Hospital Central California website)

Stanford Faculty: Frank Hanley, MD
Malcolm MacDonald, MD
Edwin Petrossian, MD
Administrative Contact: The Willson Heart Center at Children’s Hospital Central California
9300 Valley Children’s Place
Madera, CA 93636
(559) 353-6257

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Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

Salinas Valley Medical Center

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS) and Stanford Hospital & Clinics launched the Stanford Cardiac Surgery Program at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital on September 1, 2008. This partnership brings together SVMHS' 22-year history of excellence in cardiovascular services together with Stanford's worldwide reputation as a leader in cardiovascular care. This means that even more people with complex heart conditions that require surgery can receive care in the Salinas Valley. (source: Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System website)

Stanford Faculty: Vincent DeFilippi, MD, Medical Director
Robert Robbins, MD
Physician Assistant: Mark Gilbert, PA-C
Administrative Contact: Diane Kopps
Clinic Coordinator
212 San Jose Street, Suite 301
Salinas, CA  93901
(831) 759-3289

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Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

Salinas Valley Medical Center

Offering the largest pediatric open-heart surgery program in the area, Sutter is a regional referral center for young heart patients. The program includes full diagnostic capabilities with both diagnositc and intervertional 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. (source: Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento website)

Stanford Faculty: Teimour Nasirov, MD, Medical Director
Frank Hanley, MD
V. Mohan Reddy, MD
Administrative Contact: Kimberlee Gondolf & Julie Farrar
Sacramento Clinic Manager
5301 F Street   #213
Sacramento, CA  95819
(916) 733-1400

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