Shahram “shawn” Yazdani MD, FACC, FSCAI

Dr. Yazdani finished his undergraduate training at New York University and continued on to earn a medical degree at the same institution. His postgraduate training included a residency in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital followed by a Cardiology residency at the same institution. He then moved downtown to finish his interventional training at Mount Sinai Hospital. He finished his training in 1998 after which he joined a private practice in Easton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Northern Virginia in 2000 to be close to his family. He is one of the cofounders of Caring Heart and Vascular.

Dr. Yazdani has always been a trailblazer in the field of interventional cardiology. He was the first operator in Northern Virginia to change to a radial approach across the disease spectrum while performing cardiac interventions. He also started the first CTO program in the area. Chronic total occlusions (CTO) interventions involve opening arteries that have been closed for more than 3 months. It is harder to open these arteries since they are not amenable to conventional interventional techniques.

Dr. Yazdani has applied new techniques to open these arteries and has helped many patients who otherwise were living with life-limiting symptoms for many years. He has done more CTO procedures than any other interventional cardiologist in Northern Virginia. He has over two decades of experience in treating complex coronary lesions utilizing atherectomy, thrombectomy, hemodynamic support among other techniques.

Dr. Yazdani is also involved in therapies geared toward patients with atrial fibrillation who are at high risk for taking blood thinners such as Coumadin. He performs implantation of left atrial appendage occluders such as Watchman regularly. Despite having a busy interventional practice, he also holds regular office hours in multiple locations in Northern Virginia including Vienna, Manassas, and Warrenton.