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Kenan W Yount, MD
BACKGROUND
Positions:Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic (2025-Present)Associate Professor, University of Virginia (2018-2025)Director, UVA Valve Center (2018-2025)Director, Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Program (2021-2025)Course Director, UVA School of Medicine and 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 transplantLung transplantExtracorporeal 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
Pub Med Citations
EDUCATION & TRAINING
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)