Richard Wang, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MAS Clinical Research University of California San Francisco 2020
• Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of California San Francisco 2018
• Residency Internal Medicine NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Medical Center 2015
• MD Weill Cornell Medical College 2012

Grants and Projects

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• The Changing Epidemiology of Lung Health: Opportunities for Research on Cannabis and HIV Disease (The ORCHID Study), NHLBI, 2022-2027
• The M-PulSe Study: Detecting Pulmonary Edema in Sepsis with Lung Ultrasonography in Malawi, NIH, 2018-2019

Publications (18)

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Extravascular Lung WaterFluid TherapyPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveMycosesPneumonia, PneumocystisFood, FormulatedVapingCigarette SmokingPneumocystisForced Expiratory VolumeLungChild Nutrition DisordersVital CapacitySpirometryFood, Fortified

• The Puzzle of Marijuana Use and Forced Vital Capacity.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Wang RJ, Bhakta NR
• Beyond Race-Specific Spirometry Reference Equations: What Comes Next?
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2024 Wang RJ
• The Race Arithmetic of the Global Lung Function Initiative Global Reference Equations.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2024 Wang RJ
• Isolated abnormal diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (iso↓DLco) is associated with increased respiratory symptom burden in people with HIV infection.
  PloS one 2023 Byanova KL, Fitzpatrick J, Jan AK, McGing M, Hartman-Filson M, Farr CK, Zhang M, Gardner K, Branchini J, Kerruish R, Bhide S, Bates A, Hsieh J, Abelman R, Hunt PW, Wang RJ, Crothers KA, Huang L
• Lung Function in Women With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Wang RJ, Nouraie M, Kunisaki KM, Huang L, Tien PC, Anastos K, Bhandari N, Bhatt SP, Bolivar H, Cribbs SK, Foronjy R, Gange SJ, Lazarous D, Morris A, Drummond MB

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• Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts.
  BMJ global health 2021 Schell CO, Khalid K, Wharton-Smith A, Oliwa J, Sawe HR, Roy N, Sanga A, Marshall JC, Rylance J, Hanson C, Kayambankadzanja RK, Wallis LA, Jirwe M, Baker T, EECC Collaborators, EECC Collaborators*
• Markers of inflammation and immune activation are associated with lung function in a multi-center cohort of persons with HIV.
  AIDS (London, England) 2021 Jan AK, Moore JV, Wang RJ, Mcging M, Farr CK, Moisi D, Hartman-Filson M, Kerruish R, Jeon D, Lewis E, Crothers K, Lederman MM, Hunt PW, Huang L
• E-Cigarette Use and Adult Cigarette Smoking Cessation: A Meta-Analysis.
  American journal of public health 2020 Wang RJ, Bhadriraju S, Glantz SA
• Sonographic B-Lines, Fluid Resuscitation, and Hypoxemia in Malawian Patients with Suspected Sepsis.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Wang RJ, Katha G, Phiri M, Delbridge P, Gordon SB, Calfee CS, Huang L, Rylance J
• Management and Outcomes of Critically-III Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia at a Safety-net Hospital in San Francisco, a Region with Early Public Health Interventions: A Case Series.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Vanderburg S, Alipanah N, Crowder R, Yoon C, Wang R, Thakur N, Slown K, Shete PB, Rofael M, Metcalfe JZ, Merrifield C, Marquez C, Malcolm K, Lipnick M, Jain V, Gomez A, Burns G, Brown LB, Berger C, …
• HIV infection is associated with elevated biomarkers of immune activation in Ugandan adults with pneumonia.
  PloS one 2019 Wang RJ, Moore J, Moisi D, Chang EG, Byanyima P, Kaswabuli S, Musisi E, Sanyu I, Sessolo A, Lalitha R, Worodria W, Davis JL, Crothers K, Lin J, Lederman MM, Hunt PW, Huang L
• Approach to Fungal Infections in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals: Pneumocystis and Beyond.
  Clinics in chest medicine 2017 Wang RJ, Miller RF, Huang L
• Bilateral Peripheral Cystic Lesions in a Patient with Progressive Dyspnea
  J Gen Intern Med 2017 Nishtala A, Bui P, Wang RJ, Sheu L
• Linkage to Primary Care and Survival After Hospital Discharge for HIV-Infected Adults in Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2016 Peck RN, Wang RJ, Mtui G, Smart L, Yango M, Elchaki R, Wajanga B, Downs JA, Mteta K, Fitzgerald DW
• Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Trehan I, Goldbach HS, LaGrone LN, Meuli GJ, Wang RJ, Maleta KM, Manary MJ
• Children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition remain at risk for malnutrition and death in the subsequent year after recovery.
  The Journal of nutrition 2012 Chang CY, Trehan I, Wang RJ, Thakwalakwa C, Maleta K, Deitchler M, Manary MJ
• Investigation of food acceptability and feeding practices for lipid nutrient supplements and blended flours used to treat moderate malnutrition.
  Journal of nutrition education and behavior 2012 Wang RJ, Trehan I, LaGrone LN, Weisz AJ, Thakwalakwa CM, Maleta KM, Manary MJ
• A novel fortified blended flour, corn-soy blend "plus-plus," is not inferior to lipid-based ready-to-use supplementary foods for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Malawian children.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2011 LaGrone LN, Trehan I, Meuli GJ, Wang RJ, Thakwalakwa C, Maleta K, Manary MJ