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OUR TEAM

Southern California Heart Centers is a growing practice, originally established by Dr. Stanley Lau in 1997. Dr. Edwin Kok joined as his partner in 2001 and has since then helped Dr. Lau expand the clinic into what it is today.

STANLEY LAU - MD, FACC

Interventional Cardiologist

Dr. Kok joined our team in 2001. He is a board-certified cardiologist specializing in invasive and interventional cardiology (including diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary angioplasty, coronary artery stenting, laser angioplasty, intravascular ultrasound, and rotational atherectomy), as well as in non-invasive cardiology including transthoracic echocardiogram, transesophageal echocardiogram, exercise stress echocardiogram, dobutamine echocardiogram, and peripheral non-invasive studies (arterial and venous). He is certified for performing cerebral, renal and peripheral diagnostic angiograms, peripheral and renal artery angioplasty and stenting, and insertion of inferior vena cava filters. He was the Chief of Medicine in 2015, Chief of Cardiology in 2006, and served as Vice Chief of Medicine at Garfield Medical Center in 2008.

YIH JEN (Edwin) KOK - MD, FACC

Interventional Cardiologist

Dr. Cheung joined our team in 2013 as a board-certified non-invasive cardiologist. He is certified in ABIM internal medicine and cardiology, performing procedures such as transesophageal echocardiogram, cardioversion, exercise stress echocardiogram, and dobutamine echocardiogram.

SIMON CHEUNG - MD, FACC

General Cardiologist

Dr. Poa joined Southern California Heart Centers in 2021. He is nationally and internationally recognized as a pioneer and leader in minimal access cardiac surgery. He has been in the forefront of the development of thoracoscopic cardiac ablation, minimal access valvular surgery, and beating heart coronary/valvular surgery for more than 22 years.
A graduate with honors from Northwestern University Medical School, Dr. Poa was general surgery chief resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center and cardiothoracic surgery chief resident at UCLA Medical Center. He has served as the medical director and chief of cardiac surgery at the Enloe Medical Center and the medical director and chief of the Heart and Vascular Institute of Stamford Hospital where he was made full professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is board certified with the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a fellow of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. He served as the Co-Chair for the National Health Council from 2005-2007.

Li Poa - MD, FACS

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Jairo A. Espinosa - MD, FACS

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Dr. Xu joined our team in 2021 as a non-invasive cardiologist and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac CT. His specializations are consultative cardiology (both outpatient and inpatient) and cardiovascular imaging. He completed his medical training in Los Angeles and has proficiency in medical Spanish as well as Mandarin Chinese.

Peter Zihao Xu - MD, FACC

General Cardiologist

Dr. Chen is a California native, born and raised in Los Angeles. He attended St. Louis University for medical school and Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago for his internal medicine residency. His cardiology fellowship was completed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received the title of *Fellow of the Year*, and was a Chief Fellow during his final year of fellowship. He subsequently proceeded to his electrophysiology training at the University of Chicago. His research interests include conduction system pacing, subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and conduction system ventricular tachycardias. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography and Cardiac Electrophysiology. From the implantable cardiac device perspective, he is trained in placement of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization devices (including biventricular devices and conduction system pacing), and lead extraction. From the perspective of ablation, he is trained in atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, premature ventricular contraction, and ventricular tachycardia ablation.

Andrew Chen - MD, FACC

Electrophysiologist

Frankie joined our team in 2018. Frankie received his degree in nursing at California State University, Fullerton before obtaining his Master of nursing degree with a speciality in Adult-Gerontology Primary Care at California State University, Los Angeles.

FRANKIE MING-LUNG LU - MSN, NP, AGPCNP-C, RN

Nurse Practitioner

Wendy joined our team in 2018. She received her Bachelor of nursing degree at Western Governors University before obtaining her Master of nursing degree at University of California, Los Angeles. She is certified as an acute care nurse practitioner with a focus on adult gerontology and as a progressive care certified nurse.

WENDY WAN YIN YEUNG - MSN, NP, ACNPC-AG, RN, PCCN

Nurse Practitioner

Doris joined us in 2020. She received her Bachelor and Masters of nursing degree at University of Pennsylvania. Doris has experience as a director of nursing and is certified as a family nurse practitioner.

DORIS H. CHAN - MSN, NP, ANCC-FNP, RN

Nurse Practitioner

Wayne joined our team in 2021. He received his Bachelor of Nursing degree at West Coast University and Masters of Nursing degree at California State University, Long Beach. Wayne has experience as an emergency room nurse and is certified as a family nurse practitioner.

Wayne K. Suen - MSN, NP, AANP- FNP, RN

Nurse Practitioner

Jonathan Kuo - NP

Nurse Practitioner

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Southern California Heart Center

506 West Valley Blvd., Suite 100,
San Gabriel, CA 91776

Tel: (626) 308-3800 Fax: (626) 308-1899