Dr. Christiane Haeffele

Christiane Haeffele

Cardiologist, Adult congenital heart disease cardiologist

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

Dr. Haeffele earned her medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. She completed a combined medicine and pediatric residency at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. She also completed the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine program, working on oncology infrastructure in Rwanda in partnership with the Rwandan Ministry of Health and Partners in Health. She completed her fellowship in adult cardiology and sub-specialized training in adult congenital heart disease and echocardiography at Stanford Hospital. She served one year as a chief fellow for the general cardiology fellowship at Stanford.

Dr. Haeffele is the Director of the Structural ECHO program at Stanford Hospital. She is an Assistant Program Director for the General Cardiology fellowship. Dr. Haeffele is also appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Haeffele is a board certified cardiology physician. Her research interests include management of adults with congenital heart disease, structural heart disease and catheter based interventions, and the complexities of heart transplant in the adult with congenital heart disease.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Adult Congenital Heart Disease (2019)
Fellowship: Stanford University Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship (2016) CA
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital Internal Medicine Residency (2012) MA

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HONORS & AWARDS

Andrew C. Puckett Humanism in Medicine, Duke University (2007)
Department of Medicine Teaching Award, Stanford Medicine (2020)
Excellence in Cardiology Fellowship, American College of Cardiology (2015)

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ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Affinity Chief, General Cardiology Inpatient Service, Stanford Hospital (2016 - 2019)
Assistant Program Director, General Cardiology Fellowship, Stanford University (2017 - Present)
Director of Structural ECHO, Stanford CV Medicine (2019 - Present)

PUBLICATIONS

Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries Long-term Sequelae of Atrial and Arterial Switch
Haeffele, C., & Lui, G. K. (2015). Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries Long-term Sequelae of Atrial and Arterial Switch. CARDIOLOGY CLINICS, 33(4), 543-?
Risk Estimates for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
Lui, G. K., Rogers, I. S., Ding, V. Y., Hedlin, H. K., MacMillen, K., Maron, D. J., … Fernandes, S. M. (2017). Risk Estimates for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, 119(1), 112–18.
Receptor-selective coactivators as tools to define the biology of specific receptor-coactivator pairs
Gaillard, S., Grasfeder, L. L., Haeffele, C. L., Lobenhofer, E. K., Chu, T.-M., Wolfinger, R., … McDonnell, D. P. (2006). Receptor-selective coactivators as tools to define the biology of specific receptor-coactivator pairs. MOLECULAR CELL, 24(5), 797–803.