Bobby Yanagawa

Dr. Yanagawa obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of British Columbia and his MD degree and Cardiac Surgery Residency from the University of Toronto. He has completed research fellowships at the University of Wales College of Medicine (Cardiff, UK), National Cardiovascular Center (Osaka, Japan) and at St. Michael’s Hospital. He completed an Advanced Valvular Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. He has published more than 90 peer reviewed papers, 50 reviews and 15 book chapters including publications in Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Circulation, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He was the AATS 13th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Award winner in 2010. He is the current Director of the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Taskforce and the Director of the National Residency Bootcamp. Dr. Yanagawa is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in cardiac surgery locally and nationally.