Yasuhiro Honda, MD, FACC, FAHA

Co-Director of the Cardiac Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL)

Dr. Yasuhiro Honda has been Co-Director of the Cardiac Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University since 1999. He received his M.D. from Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan in 1990 and was trained in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and internal medicine at Kobe General Hospital, Kobe, Japan from 1990 to 1992. He completed cardiology training at the same hospital in 1995, and was a postdoctoral fellow in cardiology at Stanford University from 1995 to 1998. After serving as a staff cardiologist at Kobe Rehabilitation Hospital, Kobe, Japan, he returned to the United States in 1999. He now supervises quantitative coronary ultrasound and angiographic analyses for pre-clinical and large-scale multicenter trials, and his research interests include catheter-based coronary imaging and treatment, signal and image processing of intravascular ultrasound for tissue characterization, and three-dimensional volume computations by intravascular ultrasound. Dr. Honda was the model for the Stanford - St. Jude Medical Fellowship Program as it exists today.