Meet Our Physicians
Program Leadership
A broad team of medical professionals comes together to care for each patient receiving a heart transplant. At Stanford Hospital, the Heart Transplant program is led by five cardiovascular specialists with more than 100 combined years of experience and expertise in medical and surgical treatments for advanced heart failure. The leadership team guides a multidisciplinary group of pre-transplant cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac pathologists, infectious disease specialists and transplant psychiatrists.
 Philip Oyer, MD |
 Sharon A. Hunt, MD |
 Michael Pham, MD, MPH |
 Michael Fowler, MBBS, FRCP |
Heart Failure and Pre-Transplant Cardiologists
Heart failure cardiologists diagnose and treat heart failure. These physicians discuss which treatment options are appropriate based upon a thorough evaluation of a patient's medical history, severity of heart failure, and personal preferences.
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Post-Heart Transplant Cardiologists
Post-transplant cardiologists provide specialized care to heart transplant recipients, beginning immediately after surgery and continuing on after patients are discharged from the hospital. They have unique expertise in the adjustment of immunosuppressive medications to prevent rejection and in the diagnosis and treatment of post-transplant complications.
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Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Cardiothoracic surgeons perform heart transplant and ventricular assist device implant surgeries. Stanford surgeons were the first to perform a heart transplant in U.S., and the first in the world to implant a ventricular assist device.
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Cardiac Pathologists
Cardiac pathologists look for evidence of rejection in heart biopsies performed after heart transplantation.
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Immunologists
Immunologists supervise a group of highly trained laboratory technologists who perform the complex tests that help determine recipient and donor organ compatibility.
- Dolly Tyan, PhD.
Infectious Diseases Specialists
Infectious diseases doctors specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of opportunistic infections for organ transplant recipients.
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Psychiatrists
Transplant psychiatrists work closely with all of the organ transplant programs at Stanford in managing depression and other psychiatric conditions that may develop or worsen as a result of the medications used to prevent rejection.
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