Paul Cheng MD PhD

Cardiologist


Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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Additional Languages Spoken:
Mandarin , Taiwanese

Biography


Dr. Cheng is a Cardiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and a member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Cheng received his BEng in Chemical Engineering and BSc in biology at MIT. He subsequently completed his MD/PhD at UCSF working in the Srivastava lab studying how extracellular morphogenic signals affect cardiac development and fate determination of cardiac progenitors. Dr. Cheng completed internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Stanford. His current clinical focus is in amyloidosis and cardio-oncology. During his post doctoral research in the Quertermous lab, he pioneered the application of single cell transcriptomic and epigenetic techniques to study human vascular diseases including atherosclerosis and aneurysm, and applied these techniques to investigate molecular mechanisms behind genetic risk factors for several human vascular diseases including atherosclerosis, and aortopathies such as Marfan's and Loey-Dietz syndrome.

The Cheng lab takes a patient-to-bench-to-bedside approach to science. The lab focuses on elucidating new pathogenic mechanisms of human vascular diseases through combing human genetics and primary vascular disease tissues, with high-resolution transcriptomic and epigenetic profiling to generate novel hypothesis that are then tested in a variety of in vitro and in vivo models. The lab is focused on two broad questions: (1) understanding the biological underpinning of the differences in diseases propensities of different arterial segments in an individual (i.e. why do you have atherosclerosis and aneurysms in certain segments but not others), and (2) understanding the role of perivascular fibroblast in human vascular diseases.

Professional Summary


Education & Certifications
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease (2020)
  • Board Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine/Cardiology (2021)
  • Fellowship: Stanford University Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship (2020) CA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2017)
  • Residency: Stanford University Internal Medicine Residency (2016) CA
  • Medical Education: University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (2014) CA
  • Fellow, Cardiology (2020)
  • Resident, Stanford Internal Medicine (2016)
  • MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco (2014)

Honors & Awards
  • AHA Career Development Award, American Heart Association (1/2021-1/2024)
  • Gerald Reaven Award for Basic Science, Stanford University Dept of Internal Medicine (2019)
  • K08 NIH Career Development Award, NIH/NHLBI (8/2020-7/2025)
  • Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Research Prize, American Heart Association (11/2021)
  • Ruth L. Kirschtein NRSA NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), NIH / NHLBI (2018-2020)
  • Timothy F. Beckett, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Medicine Fellow, Stanford Univ. Dept. of Internal Medicine (2017)

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Practice Locations


General Cardiology at Boswell Building Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA

300 Pasteur Drive , 2nd Floor, Room A260

Stanford , CA 94305

(650) 725-5909

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(12 reviews)

Dr Paul is very kind and personable. He listens well and provides very good advice! I love having Dr Paul as my cardiologist!!
Nice talking to you and provide me lit of information about me and my medication.
Knowledgeable, Professional, courteous,& punctual
Answers all my questions!
Dr. Cheng was extremely helpful and answered all of my questions and concerns. I am grateful for "preventative" care.
Dr. Cheng is welcoming, listens, answers in a language easily understood, and is encouraging.
Thank you to everyone who participated in my first visit today I felt blessed and cared for
Thank you Dr. Paul Cheng!
He was excellent and I really liked him. I felt he gave me a lot of time. Looking forward to seeing him again.
Excellent
Very through. Good bedside manner.
He is very personable, thorough, and courteous.

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