For more than 60 years, our Heart Surgery Clinic has been recognized worldwide for groundbreaking research, quality care and positive patient outcomes. Our heart surgery program provides you with the latest and most innovative surgical treatment of heart disease.
We have been perfecting ways to perform life-saving heart procedures since completing the first open-heart surgery here in 1960. We combine world-renowned expertise with leading research to develop new techniques and technology for making heart surgery safer and more effective for you.
When you choose us, you benefit from:
HEART DISEASE IS PREVENTABLE.
We offer a range of surgical services that are unparalleled in the Western U.S. and the Pacific Rim for diversity, technology, innovation, and outcomes. Heart surgeries at Stanford include:
Using an organ from a donor who underwent cardiac death, Stanford Medicine surgeons transplanted a heart while it was beating — the first time such a procedure has been achieved.
Beating-heart repair procedure resolves degenerative mitral valve regurgitation without sternotomy.
Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate a new medical approach, device, drug, or other treatment. As a Stanford Health Care patient, you may have access to the latest, advanced clinical trials.
Open trials refer to studies currently accepting participants. Closed trials are not currently enrolling, but may open in the future.
Stanford Health Care is known worldwide for the advanced patient care provided by its doctors and staff. We also provide a wide range of guest services and amenities to our patients and visitors. Learn more about preparing for a hospital stay, billing and financial services, and our other support programs in Patients & Visitors.
Phone: +1-650-723-8561
Email: IMS@stanfordmed.org
Stanford Health Care provides comprehensive services to refer and track patients, as well as the latest information and news for physicians and office staff. For help with all referral needs and questions, visit Referral Information.
You may also submit a web referral or complete a referral form and fax it to 650-320-9443 or email the Referral Center at ReferralCenter@stanfordhealthcare.org.
To refer a patient, please call: 650-724-7500.
Fax a referral form with supporting documentation to 650-320-9443.
To request an appointment with one of our cardiothoracic surgeons, call:
Heart Surgery Clinic at Blake Wilbur Building, Boswell Building and Pleasanton: 650-724-7500
Stanford Heart Surgery Clinic
at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals
in Henderson, NV: 702-616-6580
Stanford Heart Surgery Clinic at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose: 408-885-3838
Stanford Heart Surgery Clinic at VA Palo Alto Hospital in Palo Alto: 650-493-5000
