Clinical Focus

• Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Valvular Heart Diseases
• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Coronary Artery Bypass
• Aortic Aneurysm

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Program at El Camino Hospital (2007 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Laubisch Fund for Cardiovascular Research, UCLA School of Medicine (2003-2005)
• Stein-Oppenheimer Award, UCLA School of Medicine (2003)
• John Henry Smith Award, Resident of the Year, Stanford University Department of Surgery (1992)
• Walter Blumenson Award for Academic Promise, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine (1990)
• Alpha Omega Alpha, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine (1990)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Evgenios Neofytou,  Bhagat Patlolla

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Surgery

Publications

• Drug release from electric-field-responsive nanoparticles. Ge J, Neofytou E, Cahill TJ, Beygui RE, Zare RN. ACS Nano. 2012; 6 (1): 227-33
• Adipose tissue-derived stem cells display a proangiogenic phenotype on 3D scaffolds. Neofytou EA, Chang E, Patlola B, Joubert LM, Rajadas J, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z, Robbins RC, Beygui RE. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2011; 98 (3): 383-93
• Mediastinal goiter: a comprehensive study of 60 consecutive cases with special emphasis on identifying predictors of malignancy and sternotomy. Hajhosseini B, Montazeri V, Hajhosseini L, Nezami N, Beygui RE. Am J Surg. 2011
• Successful use of a pneumatic biventricular assist device as a bridge to transplantation in cardiogenic shock. Moriguchi J, Davis S, Jocson R, Esmailian F, Ardehali A, Laks H, Kwon M, Kittleson M, Kobashigawa J, Patel J, Marelli D, Plunkett M, Beygui R, Shemin R. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011; 30 (10): 1143-7
• A matrix micropatterning platform for cell localization and stem cell fate determination. Huang NF, Patlolla B, Abilez O, Sharma H, Rajadas J, Beygui RE, Zarins CK, Cooke JP. Acta Biomater. 2010; 6 (12): 4614-21