Janet Chiang, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Chiang is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at San Francisco VA Health Care System and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Her research interest is in bone metabolism and thyroid cancers. She also enjoys teaching activities that range from the School of Medicine and UCSF Residents and Fellows.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Endocrinology University of California, San Francisco 2018
• Internship and Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2014
• M.D. Medicine Yale School of Medicine 2011
• B.S., M.A. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology University of California, Los Angeles 2004

Publications (11)

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Kidney Failure, ChronicSarcopeniaVitamin DMuscle StrengthRenal DialysisFrailtyMetabolic SyndromeFibronectinsBody CompositionLeptinVitamin D DeficiencyTestosteroneFibroblast Growth FactorsAdipose TissueAdiposity

• Comparative Uptake Patterns of Radioactive Iodine and [18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancers.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2024 Diwanji D, Carrodeguas E, Seo Y, Kang H, Soe MH, Chiang JM, Zhang L, Liu C, Behr SC, Flavell RR
• Prevalence of osteoporosis in older male veterans receiving hip-containing computed tomography scans: opportunistic use of biomechanical computed tomography analysis (BCT).
  Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA 2022 Teng PF, Chiang JM, Schafer AL, Sukerkar PA, Keaveny TM, Bikle D
• Non-Iodine-Avid Disease Is Highly Prevalent in Distant Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Papillary Histology.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2022 Soe MH, Chiang JM, Flavell RR, Khanafshar E, Mendoza L, Kang H, Liu C
• Longitudinal Assessment of Body Composition and Its Association With Survival Among Participants of the ACTIVE/ADIPOSE Study.
  Journal of renal nutrition : the official journal of the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation 2021 Delgado C, Chiang JM, Kittiskulnam P, Sheshadri A, Grimes B, Segal M, Kaysen GA, Johansen KL
• Correlates and Consequences of High Serum Irisin Concentration in Patients on Hemodialysis: A Longitudinal Analysis.
  Journal of renal nutrition : the official journal of the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Chiang JM, Delgado C, Kaysen GA, Segal MR, Chertow GM, Johansen KL

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• Low testosterone is associated with frailty, muscle wasting and physical dysfunction among men receiving hemodialysis: a longitudinal analysis.
  Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2019 Chiang JM, Kaysen GA, Segal M, Chertow GM, Delgado C, Johansen KL
• Frailty Among Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: Evolution of Components and Associations With Mortality.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019 Johansen KL, Delgado C, Kaysen GA, Chertow GM, Chiang J, Dalrymple LS, Segal MR, Grimes BA
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 is Associated With Adiposity in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: Possible Cross Talk Between Bone and Adipose Tissue.
  Journal of renal nutrition : the official journal of the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Chiang JM, Kaysen GA, Schafer AL, Delgado C, Johansen KL
• Vitamin D Levels, Body Composition, and Metabolic Factors in Asian Indians: Results from the Metabolic Syndrome and Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America Pilot Study.
  Annals of nutrition & metabolism 2018 Chiang JM, Stanczyk FZ, Kanaya AM
• Associations of lipoproteins with cardiovascular and infection-related outcomes in patients receiving hemodialysis.
  Journal of clinical lipidology 2017 Kaysen GA, Grimes B, Dalrymple LS, Chertow GM, Ishida JH, Delgado C, Segal M, Chiang J, Dwyer T, Johansen KL
• Factors Associated with Frailty and Its Trajectory among Patients on Hemodialysis.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2017 Johansen KL, Dalrymple LS, Delgado C, Chertow GM, Segal MR, Chiang J, Grimes B, Kaysen GA