Dr. Marineh Yagubyan is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon based in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and continued with a residency stage in general surgery at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education and a fellowship in thoracic surgery at the UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Yagubyan is a board-certified practitioner in thoracic and cardiac surgery. She has been active in the research field where she contributed to multiple publications. Some of the topics she covered are genetic locus heterogeneity for the aortic valve, novel NOTCH1 mutations, bicuspid aortic valve and ascending aortic aneurysm, aortic root replacement, nanobacterial-like structures in calcified arteries, the Leopard syndrome. At the moment, she is affiliated with the Glendale Adventist Medical Center and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.