Karen Trang, MD
Resident
Surgery
School of Medicine

She subsequently obtained her M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine where she performed clinical research in Vascular Surgery under the medical scholars fellowship.

Dr. Trang has developed an interest in clinical informatics while undergoing her training at UCSF and is eager to work towards becoming a surgeon-informatician. She completed fellowship in Clinical Informatics at UCSF in 2024.

• Reducing Carbon Footprint in Travel to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Annual Meeting: Striking a Balance Between Environmental Impact and Collaborative Opportunities.
  Diseases of the colon and rectum 2023 Trang K, Fung BSC, Lamb T, Moloo H, Wick EC
• Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.
  JAMA network open 2023 Decker H, Trang K, Ramirez J, Colley A, Pierce L, Coleman M, Bongiovanni T, Melton GB, Wick E
• Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.
  Applied clinical informatics 2022 Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK…
• Using Electronic Health Record Meta-Data to Identify Variation in Trainee Progress Note Writing Patterns: Opportunity to Enhance Systems-Based Care.
  Journal of surgical education 2022 Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC, Hirose K
• Assessing the role of robotic proctectomy in obese patients: a contemporary NSQIP analysis.
  Journal of robotic surgery 2022 Glencer AC, Lin JA, Trang K, Greenberg A, Kirkwood KS, Adam MA, Sarin A
• A case of prenatally diagnosed prune belly syndrome variant and congenital pouch colon in the United States: A case report
  Journal of Neonatal Surgery 2021 Mignote Yilma, Karen Trang, Marisa Schwab, Max Bowman, Mark Sugi, Jesse Courtier, Laurence S. Baskin, Doruk Ozgediz
• Getting started and sustaining change - Enhanced Recovery in Colorectal Surgery: What Works What Doesn't (Special Issue)
  Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery 2021 Karen Trang MD, Elizabeth C. Wick MD
• MicroRNAs are Necessary for BMP-7-induced Dendritic Growth in Cultured Rat Sympathetic Neurons.
  Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2019 Pravoverov K, Whiting K, Thapa S, Bushong T, Trang K, Lein PJ, Chandrasekaran V
• Smoking Cessation in Elective Surgery.
  The American surgeon 2019 Trang K, Spain DA
• Long-term outcomes after repair of symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2018 Chandra V, Trang K, Virgin-Downey W, Dalman RL, Mell MW
• Video-Based Learning vs Traditional Lecture for Instructing Emergency Medicine Residents in Disaster Medicine Principles of Mass Triage, Decontamination, and Personal Protective Equipment.
  Prehospital and disaster medicine 2018 Curtis HA, Trang K, Chason KW, Biddinger PD
• Management and outcomes of symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms during the past 20 years.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2017 Chandra V, Trang K, Virgin-Downey W, Tran K, Harris EJ, Dalman RL, Lee JT, Mell MW
• Relative mRNA Expression Levels of Restriction Factors and Antiviral Genes in Fetal and Adult Human Monocytes and Monocyte-Derived Macrophages.
  Viral immunology 2017 Trang K, Raposo RA, Lowe MM, Krow-Lucal ER, Yonemoto W, Cabido VD, SenGupta D, McCune JM