Connie Wang, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Connie Wang is a practicing gastroenterologist at UCSF Health where she specializes in caring for patients with gastrointestinal motility disorders including esophageal motility disorders and gastroparesis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and functional GI disorders.
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Dr. Wang earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley. She then completed her medical degree, residency in Internal Medicine, and gastroenterology and advanced/transplant hepatology fellowships at UCSF. Dr. Wang belongs to the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, and the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society.
Awards
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- CTSI Resident Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
- Young Investigators Forum Research Award, Controversies in Transplantation, 2016
- Alpha Omega Alpha, UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
- Dean's Prize for Clinical & Translational Research, UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
- Young Investigator Award, International Liver Transplantation Society, 2015
- Dean's Summer Research Fellowship, UCSF School of Medicine, 2012
Education & Training
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- Clinical Training Program Fellowship American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society 2023
- Transplant Hepatology Fellowship UCSF 2023
- Gastroenterology Fellowship UCSF 2019
- Internal Medicine Residency UCSF 2016
- MD UCSF School of Medicine 2011
Interests
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- GI motility disorders
- gastroparesis
- esophageal disorders
- Quality Improvement
Publications (15)
Top publication keywords:
End Stage Liver DiseaseKarnofsky Performance StatusDiabetes, GestationalMuscle StrengthSarcopeniaLiver CirrhosisPreoperative CareTransplant RecipientsHepatitis, AutoimmunePre-EclampsiaWaiting ListsFrailtyLiver TransplantationTerminal CareAdvance Care Planning
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Implementation and Analysis of a 5-Year Online Esophageal Motility Curriculum for Gastroenterology Fellows.
Digestive diseases and sciences 2024 Wang CW, Lees CR, Ko MS, Sewell JL, Kathpalia P -
Polycystic ovary syndrome is associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in women of reproductive age.
Hepatology communications 2022 Maldonado SS, Grab J, Wang CW, Huddleston H, Cedars M, Sarkar M -
Racial Disparities in Endoscopy Cancellations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Digestive diseases and sciences 2022 Wang CW, Mclean I R, Cheng YW, Kim S, Terdiman J, Kathpalia P, Beck KR -
Outcomes of pregnancy in autoimmune hepatitis: A population-based study.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021 Wang CW, Grab J, Tana MM, Irani RA, Sarkar M -
An Unusual Mechanical Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.
Gastroenterology 2020 Ha NB, Wang CW, El-Nachef N
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Low Rates of Advance Care Planning (ACP) Discussions Despite Readiness to Engage in ACP Among Liver Transplant Candidates.
Digestive diseases and sciences 2020 Wang CW, Lebsack A, Sudore RL, Lai JC -
Sex Differences in the Association Between Frailty and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis.
Clinical and translational gastroenterology 2019 Fozouni L, Wang CW, Lai JC -
The Range and Reproducibility of the Liver Frailty Index.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019 Wang CW, Lebsack A, Chau S, Lai JC -
Poor performance of psoas muscle index for identification of patients with higher waitlist mortality risk in cirrhosis.
Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2018 Ebadi M, Wang CW, Lai JC, Dasarathy S, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Carey EJ, Montano-Loza AJ, From the Fitness, Life Enhancement, and Exercise in Liver Transplantation (FLEXIT) Consortium -
Reporting functional status in UNOS: The weakness of the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale.
Clinical transplantation 2017 Wang CW, Lai JC -
A multicenter study to define sarcopenia in patients with end-stage liver disease.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017 Carey EJ, Lai JC, Wang CW, Dasarathy S, Lobach I, Montano-Loza AJ, Dunn MA, Fitness, Life Enhancement, and Exercise in Liver Transplantation Consortium -
A Comparison of Muscle Function, Mass, and Quality in Liver Transplant Candidates: Results From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study.
Transplantation 2016 Wang CW, Feng S, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Zhou LQ, Yeh BM, Lai JC -
Functional impairment in older liver transplantation candidates: From the functional assessment in liver transplantation study.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015 Wang CW, Covinsky KE, Feng S, Hayssen H, Segev DL, Lai JC -
Fibroblast circadian rhythms of PER2 expression depend on membrane potential and intracellular calcium.
Chronobiology international 2012 Noguchi T, Wang CW, Pan H, Welsh DK -
Persistent cell-autonomous circadian oscillations in fibroblasts revealed by six-week single-cell imaging of PER2::LUC bioluminescence.
PloS one 2012 Leise TL, Wang CW, Gitis PJ, Welsh DK