Karen Trang, MD
Fellow
Medicine
School of Medicine
Karen Trang, M.D. is currently a general surgery resident with the UCSF Department of Surgery. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, where she was the recipient of the De La Salle award, the highest academic honor award. Following her undergraduate education, she performed basic/translational research in HIV/Immunology in the McCune Lab at UCSF.
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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, as she concurrently completes the UCSF Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
Awards
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- Young Investigator Award Finalist for Top Scoring Abstract, 29th Annual Meeting of the Wound Healing Society, 2017
- Gayle Uilkema Scholarship Recipient for Academic Excellence and Community Service, American Association of University Women, 2014
- De La Salle Award Recipient for Highest Scholarship Record and General Excellence, Saint Mary's College of CA, 2014
- Linus Pauling Award Recipient for Outstanding Scholarship in Biochemistry, Saint Mary's College of CA, 2014
Education & Training
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- Clinical Informatics UC San Francisco 07/2026
- General Surgery UC San Francisco 07/2026
- M.D. Medicine Stanford University 07/2019
- B.S. Biochemistry Saint Mary's College of California 06/2014
Interests
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- Colorectal Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- Electronic Health Record
- Value-Based Healthcare
- Clinical Informatics
Publications (15)
Top publication keywords:
Electronic Health RecordsMonocytesElective Surgical ProceduresCarbon FootprintRNA, MessengerChild RearingWritingSurgeonsPhysiciansSmokingImmunologic FactorsHIVMacrophagesSmoking CessationGene Expression Profiling
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The Impact of Using Electronic Consents on Documentation of Language-Concordant Surgical Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2024 Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC -
We asked the experts: Normalize challenges, build community, and develop mentorship: A guide for proactive institutional support for child rearing during surgical training.
World journal of surgery 2024 Colley A, Yap A, Trang K, Kornblith LZ, Varma MG, Vu L -
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…
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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