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Kenan Yount
Kenan W Yount, MD MBA
University of Virginia
PO Box 800679
Charlotteville, VA 22908
United States
434.243.1000
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Role:
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Background
Current Positions:
- Assistant Professor, University of Virginia (2018-present)
- Director, UVA Structural Heart & Valve Center
- Director, Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Program
- Adjunct Lecturer, UVA Darden School of Business (2018-present)
Advanced Fellowships:
- Transcatheter Heart Valve Surgery, University of Virginia (2018-2019)
- Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery, University of Pennsylvania (2018-2019)
- Clinical Research, University of Virginia (2013-2014)
Residency:
- Chief Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Virginia (2017-2018)
- Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Virginia (2011-2017)
Other Interests
Structural Heart Disease:
- Valve Surgery (Aortic, Mitral, Tricuspid)
- Minimally Invasive Valve surgery (mini AVR, mini mitral, mini tricuspid)
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- Transcatheter mitral valve therapies (e.g., MitraClip)
Coronary Artery Disease:
- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Heart Failure:
- Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)
- Heart transplant
- Lung transplant
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Arrythmia Surgery:
- Atrial Fibrillation (e.g., Cox Maze IV, cryoablation)
Complex Aortic Disease:
- Aortic Dissection (e.g., Type A aortic dissection)
- Aortic Aneurysms (e.g., ascending, arch)
Research
Additional Educational Information
Graduate Education:
- MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine (2006-2010)
- MBA, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (2009-2011)
Undergraduate Education:
- BA, Economics, Dartmouth College (2002-2006)
Printer-friendlyPractice Areas
- Cardiac
- Minimally Invasive
- Transcatheter
- Cardiac
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Endocarditis
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Pericardium
- Valve disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Mitral valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Mediastinum
- Heart Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Heart/lung Transplant
- Great vessels
- Aorta
- Education
- Professional Affairs
- Ethics