Paul Yock

About

Prof. Paul Yock is the Martha Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering, Emeritus. He began his faculty career as an interventional cardiologist at UC San Francisco before moving to Stanford in 1994. Prof. Yock is recognized for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new medical devices, including the Rapid Exchange angioplasty and stenting system, which is the primary approach used worldwide. He authored the fundamental patents for intravascular ultrasound imaging, conducted the initial clinical trials, and established the Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions as a core laboratory for the analysis of intravascular ultrasound clinical studies. Additionally, he invented the Smart Needle and is a co-inventor of the strain-reduction patch for wound healing. Prof. Yock was the founding Co-Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and continues research related to new device technologies. He was also the founding director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, dedicated to advanced training in medical technology innovation.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Radiology
• Medicine
• Cardiology
• Gender studies
• Engineering
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Deep learning-based intravascular ultrasound segmentation for the assessment of coronary artery disease

  International Journal of Cardiology · 2021 · 56 citations

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• Milli-spinner thrombectomy

  Nature · 2025-06-04 · 18 citations

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• Analysis of Gender Perceptions in Health Technology: A Call to Action

  Annals of Biomedical Engineering · 2020 · 17 citations

  Gender diversity has been linked to positive business results. Yet limited data exist to characterize the gender landscape in health technology, a field that draws employees from both biomedical engineering and medicine. To better understand the state of gender diversity in this industry, we developed a survey to explore leadership representation and perceptions of workplace equality, job satisfaction, and work-life balance. Data from 400 + health technology professionals revealed that women are…

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• Impact of Diastolic Vessel Restriction on Quality of Life in Symptomatic Myocardial Bridging Patients Treated With Surgical Unroofing: Preoperative Assessments With Intravascular Ultrasound and Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography

  Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions · 2021-10-01 · 13 citations

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  Background: Despite optimal medical therapy, a myocardial bridge (MB) can cause life-limiting symptoms in a subset of patients. While surgical unroofing has been shown to improve MB-derived refractory angina, diagnostic indices of clinical symptoms and predictors of improvement following surgery are yet to be elucidated. Methods: To identify determinants of preoperative symptoms and their improvement following the surgery, preoperative intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and coronary computed tomogr…

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• Impact of myocardial bridging on coronary artery plaque formation and long-term mortality after heart transplantation

  International Journal of Cardiology · 2023-03-07 · 11 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Peter J. Fitzgerald

  Stanford University

  752 shared

• Yasuhiro Honda

  438 shared

• Alan C. Yeung

  Public Health Scotland

  315 shared

• Atsushi Takagi

  Nippon Medical School Hospital

  162 shared

• Hideki Kitahara

  Chiba University

  153 shared

• Kozo Okada

  Kyorin University

  146 shared

• Michael Cleman

  Yale New Haven Health System

  127 shared

• Yoshihiro Morino

  Iwate Medical University

  125 shared

Education

• M.D.

  Stanford University

• M.S.

  Stanford University

• B.S.

  Stanford University

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