Kendra J. Grubb is a Professor of Surgery and Medicine and is the surgical director of the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center. Before joining Emory in 2018, she was the Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and the Surgical Director of the Heart Valve program at the University of Louisville. Dr. Grubb is a champion for combating women’s heart disease. She is dedicated to improving the lives of patients through innovation and by building collaborative teams to promote a patient-centered approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. She has led and participated in multiple clinical trials of innovative cardiac surgery technologies, including studies of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, mitral valve percutaneous therapies, and endovascular treatment of aneurysms of the descending thoracic aorta. Kendra J. Grubb received her MD from the Keck School of Medicine, Master of Health Administration from the Sol Price School of Public Policy, and recently completed a Master of Science in Clinical trials at the University of Oxford. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago, her cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and her fellowship in interventional cardiology and transcatheter therapies at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
