Dr. Chiu-Yu Chen, MD

My son is a patient of Dr. Chen's. He was born with a single ventricle and all of our care up until November of last year was in SoCal where we live. Over the last year, we became very familiar with Stanford and Dr. Chen as my son's care was transferred to Stanford at the time when he was in full congestive heart failure and needed a heart transplant. We didn't know anyone at Stanford, but trusted our referral source. Dr. Chen saw him the first day of clinic visits we had and immediately hospitalized him to get him stabilized (this was after multiple hospitalizations at our usual hospital and all attempts to remedy with pharmaceuticals, including at home IV failed). Within the week, my son had a ventricular assist device placed to get him well enough to undergo transplant. After 3 months at Stanford, he was able to come home, a much healthier teenager, while we waited for him to be listed for transplant. From the start, Dr. Chen was also keeping an eye on his liver, as well, due to his underlying anatomy. He was listed and within 2 weeks had a double transplant - both heart and liver. The thing about Dr. Chen and Stanford in general is that they work as a cohesive team. When you have one amazing doctor taking care of your critically ill child, you actually have an amazing team of them and Dr. Chen certainly deserves her place in that group. She's caring, understanding, present, extremely knowledgeable, and she knows her limits which I always appreciate. I could write a similar review about many of the cardiologists, hospitalists, surgeons, etc., at Stanford. It's been by far the best experience that we've ever had with a hospital. I'm very happy to say that our son had his double transplant in March 2021 and he is a thriving young adult now! We truly owe our son's life to Stanford and to Dr. Chen.