Joseph Woo

Joseph Woo, MD is the Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair of Stanford Medicine's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Associate Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. His work focuses on complex heart valve repairs, thoracic aortic surgery, heart/lung transplantation, and minimally invasive surgical techniques. In 2022, he pioneered a groundbreaking beating-heart transplant procedure using donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors.

• Board-certified in Thoracic Surgery (2002) and General Surgery (2000)
• NIH-funded research on vascular stem cell therapies and surgical device innovations
• Principal investigator for clinical trials involving stem cells in CABG/LVAD procedures

Research emphasizes cardiovascular regeneration, surgical device development, and expanding transplant availability through perfusion systems. Co-author of >450 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Circulation.

• Leadership roles: Vice President of American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Past President of AATS Cardiac Surgery Biology Club
• Lab: Stanford Advanced Therapeutics for Heart Failure Research Laboratory