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Yong Celina
Cardiologist
Stanford University/Palo Alto VA Hospital
United States
Biography
Celina Yong is a cardiologist at Stanford University Medical Center and the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Molecular Environmental Biology at UC Berkeley. On a British Marshall Scholarship, she then pursued an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing at the London School of Economics and an MBA with a focus on social entrepreneurship at Oxford University. She completed her MD at Stanford Medical School and Internal Medicine residency at UCSF, with an Area of Distinction in Leadership & Health Systems. She completed her cardiology fellowship, including serving as Chief Cardiovascular Fellow, at Stanford University. As a Soros Fellow and Truman Scholar, she has helped develop cost-effective health strategies for Senegal with the USAID, researched health policy at The White House, and investigated determinants of healthcare fraud in rural India for The World Bank. At the Center for Global Health and Economic Development, she aided country leaders in developing their national strategies as part of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Now at Stanford, her scientific research focuses on understanding and reducing racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in cardiovascular disease. She is also a research investigator for Stanford’s renal denervation trials and the Palo Alto VA Hospital’s Corevalve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) trial. She is married to Freddy Abnousi, who is a cardiovascular fellow at Stanford University.
Research Interest
Renal Denervation for Hypertension Symplicity Trial & Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Corevalve Trial.