Alan Dang, MD
Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine

My clinical practice is exclusively at the San Francisco VA Health System. I have an active academic role at UCSF with research interests in 3D printing and medical device innovation and a capstone mentor for the UCSF/UC Berkeley Masters in Translational Medicine program. I am an Associate Editor for the journal, 3D Printing in Medicine

Education & Training

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• Spine Surgery Fellowship University of California, San Diego 2012
• Orthopaedic Surgery Residency University of Connecticut 2011
• MD University of California, San Francisco 2006

Publications (20)

Top publication keywords:
Longitudinal LigamentsSpinal StenosisModels, CardiovascularSpinal FusionChondrocytesDecompression, SurgicalForearmEpinephrineArthroscopyCarpal Tunnel SyndromeRadial NeuropathyWhiplash InjuriesMedian NeuropathyVasoconstrictor AgentsNerve Compression Syndromes

• A novel mouse model of hindlimb joint contracture with 3D-printed casts.
  Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2022 Moore LK, Lee CS, Agha O, Liu M, Zhang H, Dang ABC, Dang A, Liu X, Feeley BT
• Locally Delivered Ascorbic Acid and β-Glycerophosphate Augment Local Bone Graft in a Murine Model of 2-Level Posterior Spinal Fusion.
  International journal of spine surgery 2021 Chen JV, Lee K, Tillinghast K, Halloran B, Dang ABC
• En bloc excision of sacroiliac chondrosarcoma aided by 3D laser printed modeling and stereotactic navigation.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2021 Guinn JMV, Mayer RR, Li B, Dang ABC, Dang A, Wustrack R, Chou D
• Comparing cost and print time estimates for six commercially-available 3D printers obtained through slicing software for clinically relevant anatomical models.
  3D printing in medicine 2021 Chen JV, Dang ABC, Dang A
• Identifying a commercially-available 3D printing process that minimizes model distortion after annealing and autoclaving and the effect of steam sterilization on mechanical strength.
  3D printing in medicine 2020 Chen JV, Tanaka KS, Dang ABC, Dang A

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• 3D printed PLA Army-Navy retractors when used as linear retractors yield clinically acceptable tolerances.
  3D printing in medicine 2019 Chen JV, Dang ABC, Lee CS, Dang ABC
• The Sacroiliac Joint in 2019.
  Techniques in Orthopaedics 2019 Alan B.C. Dang
• Repurposing Human Osteoarthritic Cartilage as a Bone Graft Substitute in an Athymic Rat Posterolateral Spinal Fusion Model.
  International journal of spine surgery 2018 Dang ABC, Hong H, Lee K, Luan T, Reddy S, Kuo AC
• The Effects of Topical Vancomycin on Mesenchymal Stem Cells: More May Not Be Better.
  International journal of spine surgery 2017 Chu S, Chen N, Dang ABC, Kuo AC, Dang ABC
• Applications of computational modeling in cardiac surgery.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2014 Lee LC, Genet M, Dang AB, Ge L, Guccione JM, Ratcliffe MB
• The Painful Sacroiliac Iliac Joint.
  Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery 2014 Alan B. C. Dang, Alexandra K. Schwartz, Steven R. Garfin
• Can statistics alone add clinical meaning to non-specific billing databases? Commentary on an article by Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH, et al.: "Revision surgery following operations for lumbar stenosis".
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2011 Dang AB, Garfin SR
• Effects of adding epinephrine to arthroscopic irrigation fluid on cultured chondrocyte survival in vitro.
  Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association 2011 Dang AB, McCarthy MB, Dang AB, Chowaniec DM, Mazzocca AD
• The effect of medial meniscectomy and meniscal allograft transplantation on knee and anterior cruciate ligament biomechanics.
  Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association 2010 Spang JT, Dang AB, Mazzocca A, Rincon L, Obopilwe E, Beynnon B, Arciero RA
• Unusual compression neuropathies of the forearm, part I: radial nerve.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2009 Dang AC, Rodner CM
• Unusual compression neuropathies of the forearm, part II: median nerve.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2009 Dang AC, Rodner CM
• Biomechanics of the anterior longitudinal ligament during 8 g whiplash simulation following single- and contiguous two-level fusion: a finite element study.
  Spine 2008 Dang AB, Hu SS, Tay BK
• Effect of ventricular size and patch stiffness in surgical anterior ventricular restoration: a finite element model study.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2005 Dang AB, Guccione JM, Zhang P, Wallace AW, Gorman RC, Gorman JH, Ratcliffe MB
• Akinetic myocardial infarcts must contain contracting myocytes: finite-element model study.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2004 Dang AB, Guccione JM, Mishell JM, Zhang P, Wallace AW, Gorman RC, Gorman JH, Ratcliffe MB
• 1068-123 Akinetic segments of myocardial infarction contain contractng myocytes: A finite element model study.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2004 Alan B.C Dang, Julius M Guccione, Jacob M Mishell, Peng Zhang, Arthur W Wallace, Robert C Gorman, Joseph H Gorman, Mark B Ratcliffe