Mayuko Uehara

Mayuko Uehara, MD, PhD, is an Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Cardiothoracic Surgery Super Fellow at Montefiore-Einstein.

Dr. Uehara earned her Doctor of Medicine at Shimane Medical University inJapan, and a PhD in Clinical Research of Cardiovascular Surgery at Sapporo Medical University Hospital.. She completed an internship in medicine at Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, and her residency and clinical fellowship in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Sapporo Medical University Hospital. She also completed a research fellowship in transplant immunology and was an instructor in transplant immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Uehara’s research experience includes a new method for the detection of coronary artery bypass graft using transit time flow measurement (TTFM) and MemCalc software. She is a member of the Japan Surgical Society, the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Japanese Circulation Society, the Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and the Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery. She is also a member of the American Society of Transplantation, The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Heart Association and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Dr. Uehara is a board certified surgeon in the Japan Surgical Society and a board certified cardiovascular surgeon in the Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. In addition, she is board certified in angiology by the Japanese College of Angiology and board certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).