Victoria Tang, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Tang is a clinician-researcher who is a national leader in improving the lives of older adults in the surgical setting. Dr. Tang received her MD from University of Texas-Southwestern in 2005. She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in geriatrics at UT-Southwestern. Dr. Tang joined the UCSF faculty in June 2016, and she is a geriatrician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Dr. Tang is an internationally known expert in geriatric surgical care and research. Dr. Tang’s expertise has helped develop geriatric-specific guidelines across multiple disciplines, such as with the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American College of Surgeons. Her expertise has also helped develop the first geriatric surgical verification program in the nation. Dr. Tang’s research has been featured in high-impact journals, including JAMA-Internal Medicine, JAMA-Surgery, and Annals of Surgery and in the public media, including the New York Times and USA Today. Dr. Tang’s research has garnered local and national support through generous grant funding. Most recently, Dr. Tang received the prestigious aging leadership award, NIH/NIA K76 Beeson Award, which identifies leaders in aging research. Dr. Tang’s overall objective of her current research is to understand the psychosocial experience of older surgical patients and caregivers and to develop and pilot test a psychosocial intervention to improve depressive symptoms, coping skills, and social support in older surgical patients. The central hypothesis of this project is that with a greater understanding of the psychosocial experience and interventions designed to mitigate the effects of psychosocial vulnerability, post-operative outcomes, such as physical function and quality of life, will improve.
Dr. Tang is committed to building supportive communities that promote continuing self-development and leadership in trainees and junior faculty. Dr. Tang is the Director of Career Development for Wellness within the Division of Geriatrics. With her research and mentoring expertise, she has built and leads a community of junior researchers within the geriatrics division (Early Division of Geriatrics Investigators -- EDGI). EDGI supports junior aging researchers with peer-mentoring, leadership development, and representation within the larger research community. Dr. Tang is also the Program Director of the VA Quality Scholars Program, dedicated to developing future healthcare leaders within the VA system.
Interests
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- Decision making
- Clinical epidemiology
- Quality of life
- Pre-operative care
- Frailty
- Health services research
- Functional status
- Pre-habilitation
- Advance care planning
- Surgical care
- Social Vulnerability
- Hospitalization
- Geriatric surgery
- Geriatrics
- Implementation science
Websites
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- UCSF Geriatric Medicine Division (geriatrics.ucsf.edu)
Grants and Projects
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Publications (37)
Top publication keywords:
Hip FracturesAdvance Care PlanningHospitals, VeteransGeriatric AssessmentPsychological TestsPreoperative CareActivities of Daily LivingPostoperative PeriodRecovery of FunctionMultiple Chronic ConditionsElective Surgical ProceduresSurgical Procedures, OperativeDocumentationPreoperative PeriodGroup Practice
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Advance Care Planning in Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions Undergoing High-Risk Surgery.
JAMA surgery 2019 Tang VL, Dillon EC, Yang Y, Tai-Seale M, Boscardin J, Kata A, Sudore RL -
Functional Status and Survival After Breast Cancer Surgery in Nursing Home Residents.
JAMA surgery 2018 Tang V, Zhao S, Boscardin J, Sudore R, Covinsky K, Walter LC, Esserman L, Mukhtar R, Finlayson E -
Increasing Advance Care Planning Using a Surgical Optimization Program for Older Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Kata A, Sudore R, Finlayson E, Broering JM, Ngo S, Tang VL -
Rates of Recovery to Pre-Fracture Function in Older Persons with Hip Fracture: an Observational Study.
Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Tang VL, Sudore R, Cenzer IS, Boscardin WJ, Smith A, Ritchie C, Wallhagen M, Finlayson E, Petrillo L, Covinsky K -
Time to benefit for colorectal cancer screening: survival meta-analysis of flexible sigmoidoscopy trials.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2015 Tang V, Boscardin WJ, Stijacic-Cenzer I, Lee SJ
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"There's So Much That They're Enduring": Experiences of Older Adults Undergoing Major Elective Surgery.
Annals of surgery 2024 Kata A, Dillon EC, Christina Keny RN, Yank V, Covinsky KE, Raue PJ, Sandhu HK, Tang VL -
Trajectories of Postoperative Depressive Symptoms in Older Patients Undergoing Major Surgery.
JAMA network open 2024 Cenzer I, Inouye SK, Raue PJ, Keny C, Cooper Z, Tang VL -
"It's Incapacitated Me in so Many Ways": Older Adults' Lived Experience With Postoperative Symptoms at Home After Major Elective Surgery.
Annals of surgery 2023 Keny C, Dillon EC, Russell MM, Colley A, Yank V, Tang V -
Social Strain is associated with Functional Decline in Older Adults after Surgery.
Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Tang VL, Cenzer I, Keny C, John Boscardin W, Covinsky K, Finlayson E, Kotwal A -
Multisite Implementation of an American College of Surgeons Geriatric Surgery Quality Improvement Initiative.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2023 Ma M, Peters XD, Zhang LM, Hornor M, Christensen K, Coleman J, Finlayson E, Flood KL, Katlic M, Lagoo-Deenadayalan S, Robinson TN, Rosenthal RA, Tang VL, Ko CY, Russell MM -
Postoperative Functional Health Status in Older Adults Undergoing Minor Surgery: An Observational Study.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Charlie Dharmasukrit, Myrick Clements Shinall, Sun Young Jeon, John Boscardin, Victoria L Tang -
Social Strain Is Associated with Functional Health in Older Adults after Major Surgery.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Victoria Tang, Emily Virginia Ann Finlayson, John Boscardin, Ashwin Kotwal -
The Lived Experience of Geriatric Surgical Patients Who Describe Challenging Postoperative Symptoms and the Perceived Impact on Recovery: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Christina Keny, Victoria Tang, Alexis Colley, Veronica Yank -
Psychosocial Stress Before Major Oncologic Operations: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Palliative Care Provider Documentation.
Annals of surgery 2021 Shinall MC, Beskow LM, Karlekar M, Martin SF, Robbins SG, Tang VL -
Public Opinions About Surgery in Older Adults: A Thematic Analysis.
Annals of surgery 2021 Dharmasukrit C, Ramaiyer M, Dillon EC, Russell MM, Dutt M, Colley A, Tang VL -
Long-Term Functional Decline in Older Adults That Survived 6 Months after Major Surgery.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Victoria Tang, Sun Young Jeon, Emily Virginia Ann Finlayson, John Boscardin, kenneth E. covinsky -
Preoperative Depressive Symptoms Associated with Poor Functional Recovery after Surgery.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Tang VL, Cenzer I, McCulloch CE, Finlayson E, Cooper Z, Silvestrini M, Ngo S, Schmitt EM, Inouye SK -
Anxious, Depressed, and Planning for the Future: Advance Care Planning in Diverse Older Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 McMahan RD, Barnes DE, Ritchie CS, Jin C, Shi Y, David D, Walker EJ, Tang VL, Sudore RL -
Advance Care Planning Prior to Death in Older Adults with Hip Fracture.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Kata A, Cenzer I, Sudore RL, Covinsky KE, Tang VL -
Association of Functional, Cognitive, and Psychological Measures With 1-Year Mortality in Patients Undergoing Major Surgery.
JAMA surgery 2020 Tang VL, Jing B, Boscardin J, Ngo S, Silvestrini M, Finlayson E, Covinsky KE -
Including the Family in Perioperative Care of Older Adults-A Call for HELP.
JAMA internal medicine 2020 Tang V, Finlayson E, Covinsky K -
What Matters? The Valued Life Activities of Older Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Kata A, Dutt M, Sudore RL, Finlayson E, Broering JM, Tang VL -
How Did We Get Here? A Broader View of the Postoperative Period.
Anesthesiology clinics 2019 Kaplan JA, Tang V, Finlayson E -
Optimizing the Feasibility and Scalability of a Geriatric Surgery Quality Improvement Initiative.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Hornor MA, Tang VL, Berian J, Robinson TN, Coleman J, Katlic MR, Rosenthal RA, Christensen K, Baker T, Finlayson E, Lagoo-Deenadaayalan SA, Ko CY, Russell MM -
Age, comorbidity, life expectancy, and pulmonary nodule follow-up in older veterans.
PloS one 2018 Wong ML, Shi Y, Fung KZ, Ngo S, Elicker BM, Brown JK, Hiatt RA, Tang VL, Walter LC -
Older Adult and Surrogate Perspectives on Serious, Difficult, and Important Medical Decisions.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Petrillo LA, McMahan RD, Tang V, Dohan D, Sudore RL -
Application of the RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Methodology to a Large Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Group Evaluating the Validity and Feasibility of Patient-Centered Standards in Geriatric Surgery.
Health services research 2018 Berian JR, Baker TL, Rosenthal RA, Coleman J, Finlayson E, Katlic MR, Lagoo-Deenadayalan SA, Tang VL, Robinson TN, Ko CY, Russell MM -
Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery.
Annals of surgery 2018 Berian JR, Rosenthal RA, Baker TL, Coleman J, Finlayson E, Katlic MR, Lagoo-Deenadayalan SA, Tang VL, Robinson TN, Ko CY, Russell MM -
OUTCOMES AFTER BREAST CANCER SURGERY IN NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: A NATIONAL STUDY.
Innovation in Aging 2017 V.L. Tang, R. Sudore, K.E. Covinsky, C.S. Ritchie, S. Zhao, E. Finlayson -
Outcomes after Breast Cancer Surgery in Nursing Home Residents: A National Study.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Victoria Tang, Shoujun Zhao, W. John Boscardin, Christine Ritchie, Emily Finlayson -
Frailty and Surgical Decision Making.
Annals of internal medicine 2016 Tang VL, Covinsky K -
One-Year Mortality After Hip Fracture: Development and Validation of a Prognostic Index.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Cenzer IS, Tang V, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Ritchie C, Wallhagen MI, Espaldon R, Covinsky KE -
Postoperative Functional Outcomes in Older Adults.
Current surgery reports 2016 Brinson Z, Tang VL, Finlayson E -
Clinician Factors Associated With Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Older Veterans With Limited Life Expectancy.
JAMA internal medicine 2016 Tang VL, Shi Y, Fung K, Tan J, Espaldon R, Sudore R, Wong ML, Walter LC -
Statin medications are associated with a lower probability of having an abnormal screening prostate-specific antigen result.
Urology 2014 Shi Y, Fung KZ, Freedland SJ, Hoffman RM, Tang VL, Walter LC -
Predictors of rehospitalization after admission for pneumonia in the veterans affairs healthcare system.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Tang VL, Halm EA, Fine MJ, Johnson CS, Anzueto A, Mortensen EM -
Trends in hospice referral and length of stay at a veterans hospital over the past decade.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2012 Tang VL, French CJ, Cipher DJ, Rastogi P