Dr. Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD

Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD, is an internationally known heart transplant surgeon and a pioneer in mechanical assist therapy for heart failure. Under his leadership, Columbia University Medical Center’s Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs have earned international recognition for their contributions in developing and testing new cardiac devices and in training cardiothoracic surgeons around the world. Columbia’s heart transplant program is the largest U.S. heart transplant program by volume. Dr. Naka’s clinical specialties include adult cardiac surgery for coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support device implantation. His research has focused on cardiac and pulmonary transplantation, organ preservation, surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, vein graft disease after bypass surgery, and outcomes of clinical mechanical circulatory support device surgery and heart transplantation. He has been …a lead investigator in several clinical trials paving the way in the research and innovation of new approaches to mechanical circulatory assistance, including use of these devices as destination therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. Dr. Naka earned his medical and post-doctoral degrees at the Osaka University Medical School in Japan. Upon his arrival at Columbia University in 1993, he began his specialization in cardiac and pulmonary transplantation, in research efforts. He finished his training in 1998, having completed a research fellowship in cardiac and pulmonary transplantation and a visiting clinical fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery, after which he joined the cardiac surgery faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

• Newyork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center

525 E 68th St # M-404

New York

NY

10065

USA

(844) 306-8383

https://weillcornell.org/naka-yoshifumi-md

• Thoracic Surgeon

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Removal Procedures on the Lungs and Pleura
• Coronary Artery Bypass
• Heart Valve Procedures
• Septal Defect Repair
• Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Heart/Lung Transplant

• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• AETNA
• Aetna - NYP
• Affinity Health Plan
• AgeWell
• Amerigroup of New Jersey
• Amida Care
• CIGNA
• Elderplan
• Emblem/GHI
• Emblem/Hip
• Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
• Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus
• Fidelis Care
• GHI
• Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
• Healthfirst
• Local 1199
• Magnacare (National)
• Medicare
• MVP Health Care
• Oxford Health Plans
• RiverSpring
• United Healthcare
• UnitedHealthcare
• VNSNY CHOICE
• WellCare

• Valvular Heart Disease
• Mitral Valvular Disease
• Hypertension (HTN)