William Vicks, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco campus. My research previously focused on health disparities for cardiometabolic risk factors in historically underserved populations. It has focused on prediabetes and diabetes prevalence in Asian populations as compared to that in white populations, stratified by body mass index.

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Through my clinical work at UCSF, I have developed an interest in HFpEF and pulmonary hypertension, and am interested in combining my passion for primary and secondary prevention with my clinical interest in these areas.

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Internal Medicine Residency 06/2022
• MD University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine 05/2019
• B.S Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Philosophy, Physics University of California, Santa Cruz 06/2012

Publications (3)

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Middle AgedCross-Sectional StudiesElectronic Health RecordsOverweightPrediabetic StateRetrospective StudiesPrevalenceFemaleBody Mass IndexDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansAdultObesity

• Circulation
  Differential Burden of Prediabetes and Diabetes Among Asians Subgroups in a Large US Healthcare System 2022 William Vicks, Joan C Lo, Jamal S Rana, Nancy Gordon, Nirmala Ramalingam
• Prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes vary by ethnicity among U.S. Asian adults at healthy weight, overweight, and obesity ranges: an electronic health record study.
  BMC public health 2022 Vicks WS, Lo JC, Guo L, Rana JS, Zhang S, Ramalingam ND, Gordon NP
• J. Am Coll Cardiology
  Comparison of Obesity and Pre-Diabetes Prevalence Among Adults of Chinese, Filipino, South Asian, and White Race/Ethnicity. 2020 William Vicks, Joan Lo, Nirmala Ramalingam, Nancy Gordon