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Abbas Ardehali, MD

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Abbas Ardehali, MD
Specialty
Thoracic Surgery, Transplant Surgery
Gender Language Spoken
Male English, Farsi
Hospital Affiliation
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
State License Number
G62746
Contact
(310) 825-5841 Patient information and referral
Fax Number
(310) 206-3506
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MEDICAL BOARD CERTIFICATION
Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 1998
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1989
EDUCATION
Fellowship
Cardiology, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, 1989 - 1990
Residency
Surgery/Thoracic Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1995 - 1997
Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1991 - 1995
Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, 1987 - 1989
Internship
Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1990 - 1991
Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, 1986 - 1987
Medical Degree
MD, Emory University School of Medicine, 1986
CLINICAL INTEREST
Aortic Aneurysm, Aortic Root Repair, Aortic Valve Surgery, Assist Devices, Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Septal Defect Repair, Chest Malignancies, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Heart, Heart Lung Transplant, Heart Transplant, Lung, Lung Cancer & Chest Malignancies, Lung Nodule, Lung Transplant, Maze Procedure (for atrial fibrillation), Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy, Mediastinal Tumor, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Mitral Valve Surgery, Myasthenia Gravis, Pericardial Window, Pericardiectomy, Pneumothorax, Robotic Surgery, Sarcoma, Thoracic Cancer, Thoracic Oncology, Thoracoscopy, Thymoma, Thymus, Tricuspid Valve Surgery, Ventricular Anuerysms Repair, Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)
AFFILIATION
Department Affiliation
Director, Heart and Heart-Lung Transplant Program
Director, Heart Transplantation, Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation
Physician, Cardiothoracic Surgery
MORE INFORMATION
Research Interest
  • Improvement in Adult Cardiac Surgery Outcomes
  • Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
  • Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy/Chronic Rejection in Transplantation
  • Reperfusion Injury in Heart and Lung Transplantation
Additional Information
  • Professor of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • William E. Conner Chair in Cardiovascular Transplantation
  • Director, Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs
  • Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, GLA VA Healthcare System
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