Victoria L. Tang, M.D.
- Victoria Tang, MD, MAS
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Medical Director, Surgery Wellness Program
- Division of Geriatrics, University of California-San Francisco
- Division of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Contact Information
Education
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, B.S. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 2005
University of Texas - Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, M.D., 2009
Residencies
- University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, Internship, Internal Medicine, 2010
- University of Texas - Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, Residency, Internal Medicine, 2012
Fellowships
- University of Texas - Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine, 2013
- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Masters Degree Program, Training in Clinical Research, 2015
- San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, Fellowship, VA Quality Scholars, 2016
Biography
Victoria Tang, MD completed medical school, Internal Medicine residency, and a Geriatrics fellowship at the University of Texas ? Southwestern in Dallas. She is passionate about providing outstanding care to older adults in her role as an attending physician on the Acute Care of Elders (ACE) Unit at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and in the Geriatric Medicine Clinic. She also provides geriatric assessments for the Center for Surgery in Older Adults with the goal of maximizing older surgical patients? functional outcomes and quality of life. In addition, Dr. Tang is currently a VA Quality Scholars Fellow pursuing advanced training in healthcare quality. She is also a Geriatrics Research Fellow pursuing a Master's degree in clinical research at UCSF with a specialization in implementation science. Dr. Tang?s research program focuses on improving the quality of care provided to hospitalized older adults.
Posters & Oral Presentations
- Delirium in the Hospitalized Elderly after Hip Fracture 2012 (Lecture)
- Behavioral Training Treatments for Urge Incontinence in the Geriatric Population 2011 (Lecture)
- Efficacy of Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine against HPV Infection and Diseases in Males 2011 (Lecture)
- Medical Treatments of Urinary Incontinence in the Geriatric Population 2010 (Lecture)
- Reasons for and Causes of Medication Non-Adherence 2007 (Lecture)
- Theoretical Studies of the Activation of Leinamycin, an Anti-tumor Antibiotic 2004 (Lecture)
- Potentiometric and NMR Titrations of Fatty Acids in Bile Salt Solutions 2003 (Lecture)
- VZV Meningoencephalitis, Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting 2011 (Poster)
- Activation of Leinamycin, American Chemical Society National Symposium 2004 (Poster)
- Fatty Acids in Bile Salt Solutions, Baylor University American Chemical Society 2003 (Poster)
In the News
- UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults - - January 06, 2016Jennifer Kaplan, M.D., a research resident in the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, received the award for Best Trainee Poster Presentation from the Academy for Healthcare Improvement (AHI) at the organization's 2015 annual meeting. The presentation, "Health Coaching By Health Professions Students for Frail Older Adults Scheduled for High Risk Elective Surgery", was developed by members of a multidisciplinary research group in the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA). In [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - August 03, 2015A research team at the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA) including faculty, research residents, staff and students, gave a poster presentation about the UCSF Surgery Wellness Program entitled, Get Fit for Surgery: An Interdisciplinary Geriatric Surgery Wellness Program, at the 5th Annual Quality and Safety Symposium hosted by the UCSF Department of Medicine on May 28, 2015. The presentation reported on early results on this new clinical intervention, which launched in February [...]
