Christopher Yue-Yun Woo, MD, MS, FACC

Biography

Instructor

Clinical Science

Dr. Christopher Woo is a cardiologist and heart failure specialist with The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California, where he serves as Chief of Cardiology at the Santa Clara Medical Center. Prior to entering medicine, he worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards and is the South Bay Site Director for the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. His clinical interests lie in cardiac sarcoidosis, cardio-oncology, and the management of patients with advanced cardiogenic shock.

Education and Training

Degrees: BS, summa cum laude, University of California, Berkeley
MD, Duke University School of Medicine
MS, Stanford University School of Medicine

Residency: Resident, internal medicine, Stanford University Medical Center
Chief Resident, internal medicine, Stanford University Medical Center

Fellowship: Fellow, cardiovascular disease, Stanford University Medical Center
Chief Fellow, cardiovascular disease, Stanford University Medical Center
Fellow, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, Stanford University Medical Center

Professional Positions

Clinical Instructor: Stanford University School of Medicine; 2010-2011

Associate Physician, Invasive Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure: The Permanente Medical Group; 2015-2018

Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies: The Permanente Medical Group; 2017-present

Assistant Chief, Cardiology: Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; 2017-2020

Senior Physician, Invasive Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure: The Permanente Medical Group; 2018-present

Chief, Cardiology: Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; 2020-present

Honors and Awards

Alpha Omega Alpha: Duke University School of Medicine; 2006

Timothy F. Beckett, Jr. Award for Best Clinical Teaching by a Medicine Fellow: Stanford University School of Medicine; 2012, 2013

Outstanding Clinical Fellow: Stanford University Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; 2013

Third Place, Fellows Clinical Research: Tenth Annual Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators’ Forum; 2015

Excellence in Resident Teaching Award: Internal Medicine Residency Program, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; 2016

Subspecialty Teacher of the Year Award: Internal Medicine Residency Program, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; 2017, 2018

Silver Scope Award: Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; 2018

Scholarly Activities

Peer-reviewed research manuscripts

Osada T, Woo CY, McKinney M, Yang XY, Lei G, LaBreche HG, Hartman ZC, Niedzwiecki D, Chao N, Amalfitano A, Morse MA, Lyerly HK, Clay TM. Induction of Wilms’ tumor protein (WT1)-specific antitumor immunity using a truncated WT1- expressing adenovirus vaccine. Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Apr 15;15(8):2789-96.
Woo CY, Strandberg EJ, Schmiegelow MD, Pitt AL, Hlatky MA, Owens DK, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD. Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Among Patients with Mild Heart Failure. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Sep 15;163(6):417-26.

Presentations, posters, and abstracts

Woo CY, Schroeder BW, Kapur R. Hypoglycemia and Renal Failure: Two Commonly Overlooked Adverse Effects of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Therapy. American College of Physicians Northern California Chapter Meeting, Nov 22-23, 2008. San Francisco, CA (Abstract #40).
Ni A, Niederkohr R, Woo C. An Interesting Presentation of Sarcoidosis. American College of Physicians Northern California Chapter Meeting, Nov 3, 2018. Santa Clara, CA.
Yousufi S, Woo C, Murphy J. A Rare Cause of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a Young Male: Anomalous Left Coronary Artery originating from Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA). American College of Physicians Northern California Chapter Meeting, Nov 3, 2018. Santa Clara, CA.