SpecialtiesJ. Nilas Young, M.D.
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Clinical/Research InterestsJ. Nilas Young has a long record as an innovative surgeon and educator. He has been a professor and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery since 2000, as well as program director for the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program. In 1989, he founded Heart to Heart International Children's Medical Alliance, a nonprofit organization that has established the first cardiothoracic surgery program in Russia. His research interests include magnetic resonance imaging for assessment of myocardial protection, reperfusion injury and cardiac preconditioning, and ultrafast electron-beam computed tomography for assessment of bypass graft patency. Dr. Young's clinical interests include valve repair, coronary revascularization and congenital heart disease. |
Title: |
Professor Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery |
Specialty: |
Surgery - Cardiothoracic, Surgery - Thoracic |
Center/Program Affiliation: |
Heart Center |
Address: |
UC Davis Medical Center - Cypress Building 2221 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817 |
Alternate Address |
UC Davis Medical Center - Cypress Building 2221 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817 |
Phone: |
(916) 734-7261 |
Education: |
Louisiana State University School of Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana M.D. 1970 |
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Spring Hill College Mobile, Alabama 1966 |
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Board Certifications: |
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 1998 American Board of Surgery, 1976 |
Professional Memberships: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association for Thoracic Surgery American College of Cardiology American College of Chest Physicians American College of Surgeons American Medical Association International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Society of Thoracic Surgeons Western Thoracic Surgical Association |
Select Recent Publications: |
Rogers, J.H., Yeo K.K., Carroll, J.D., Cleveland, J., Reece, T.B., Gillinov, A.M., Rodriguez L., Whitlow, P., Woo, Y.J., Herrmann, H.C., Young, J.N. Late Surgical Mitral Valve Repair after Percutaneous Repair with The MitraClip System. J. Card Surg. 2009 Jul 24 [Epub ahead of print]. 2009 Zhongmin, Li, Khung Keong, Yeo, Joseph P. Parker, Geeta Mahendra, J.N. Young, Ezra A. Amsterdam. Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery in California, 2003 to 2005. Am Heart J. 2008 Dec; 156 (6) 1095-102. 2008 Kumar, S.P., Mahtabifard, A., Young, J.N. Fractured Inferior Vena Cava Filter Strut Presenting as a penetrating foreign body in the Right Ventricle. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2008 Jul-Aug; 23(4):378-81. Epub 2008 Jul 1. 2008 Wong, M.S., A.S. Morris R.F. Calhoun, J.N. Young, A.K. Oh, G.A. Wong. Poststernotomy mediastinitis fifteen years after coronary artery bypass grafting - could this have been prevented? Helix Review Series, Infectious Diseases; 2 (9). 2007 Lu, L., Q. Zhang, V. Timofeyev, Z. Zhang, K.A. Glatter, J.N. Young, H.S. Shin, A.A. Knowlton, N. Chiamvimonvat. Functional Coupling of a Ca2+-Activated K+ Channel (SK2) to L-type Ca2+ Channels via a-Actinin2. Circulation Research, 100 (1): 112 - 120. 2007 Glatter, K.A., J.N. Young, M.D. McElvany. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: A new preventive medical option. Preventive Cardiology 2006, Winter: 9 (1): 49-53. 2006 Tuteja, D., D. Xu, V. Tomofeyev, D. Sharma, L. Nie, A. Vazquez, J.N. Young, K. Glatter, N. Chiamvimonvat. Differential expression of small conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channels SK1, SK2 and SK3 channels in mouse atrial and ventricular myocytes. AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 289: 2714-2723. 2006 Feeney C., M. Abdel-Malek, R. Kordestani, L. Lambert and N. Young. Actinomyces meyeri causing tamponade and constrictive pericarditis. Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2004;12:233-35, 2004. Jones D., E. Amsterdam, J.N. Young. Septic thrombophlebitis of the coronary sinus with complete recovery after surgical intervention. Cardiology in Review. 12(5):325-26, 2004 Grow M.P., A. Singh, N.W. Fleming, N. Young, M. Watnik. Cardiac output monitoring during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology 18(1): 43-46, 2004. |
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