Yanling Zhao

Yanling Zhao is a Senior Professor and Database Manager at Columbia University. Her research focuses on cardiothoracic surgery, heart transplantation, and outcomes research, with particular emphasis on donation after circulatory death heart transplant risk stratification, multi-organ transplantation in adult congenital heart disease, and aortic valve-sparing operations. Her recent publications include a novel risk score predicting 1-year mortality following donation after circulatory death heart transplant, analyses of stroke prevalence in the new heart allocation system era, and studies on prolonged microaxial left ventricular assist device support for refractory cardiogenic shock. Her work also examines valve-sparing aortic root replacement in resternotomy settings and bilateral internal mammary artery grafting in patients with mildly decreased renal function.