Connie Wang, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor

Dr. Connie Wang is a practicing gastroenterologist at UCSF Health where she specializes in caring for patients with gastrointestinal motility disorders including esophageal motility disorders and gastroparesis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and functional GI disorders.

Dr. Wang earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley. She then completed her medical degree, residency in Internal Medicine, and gastroenterology and advanced/transplant hepatology fellowships at UCSF. Dr. Wang belongs to the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, and the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society.

Education
2023 - Clinical Training Program Fellowship, American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society
2023 - Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, UCSF
2019 - Gastroenterology Fellowship, UCSF
2016 - Internal Medicine Residency, UCSF
MD, 2011 - , UCSF School of Medicine
Honors and Awards
  • CTSI Resident Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
  • Young Investigators Forum Research Award, Controversies in Transplantation, 2016
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
  • Dean's Prize for Clinical & Translational Research, UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
  • Young Investigator Award, International Liver Transplantation Society, 2015
  • Dean's Summer Research Fellowship, UCSF School of Medicine, 2012
Publications

  1. Wang CW, Lees CR, Ko MS, Sewell JL, Kathpalia P. Implementation and Analysis of a 5-Year Online Esophageal Motility Curriculum for Gastroenterology Fellows. Digestive diseases and sciences 2024. PMID: 38507124


  2. Maldonado SS, Grab J, Wang CW, Huddleston H, Cedars M, Sarkar M. Polycystic ovary syndrome is associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in women of reproductive age. Hepatology communications 2022. PMID: 35861548


  3. Wang CW, Mclean I R, Cheng YW, Kim S, Terdiman J, Kathpalia P, Beck KR. Racial Disparities in Endoscopy Cancellations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Digestive diseases and sciences 2022. PMID: 35732970


  4. Wang CW, Grab J, Tana MM, Irani RA, Sarkar M. Outcomes of Pregnancy in Autoimmune Hepatitis: A Population-Based Study. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 34455632


  5. Ha NB, Wang CW, El-Nachef N. CLINICAL CHALLENGES AND IMAGES IN GI An Unusual Mechanical Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage. Gastroenterology 2020. PMID: 33039467


  6. Wang CW, Lebsack A, Sudore RL, Lai JC. Low Rates of Advance Care Planning (ACP) Discussions Despite Readiness to Engage in ACP Among Liver Transplant Candidates. Digestive diseases and sciences 2020. PMID: 32500286


  7. Fozouni L, Wang CW, Lai JC. Sex Differences in the Association Between Frailty and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis. Clinical and translational gastroenterology 2019. PMID: 31789932


  8. Wang CW, Lebsack A, Chau S, Lai JC. The Range and Reproducibility of the Liver Frailty Index. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30884128


  9. Ebadi M, Wang CW, Lai JC, Dasarathy S, Kappus MR, Dunn MA, Carey EJ, Montano-Loza AJ. Poor performance of psoas muscle index for identification of patients with higher waitlist mortality risk in cirrhosis. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2018. PMID: 30269421


  10. Wang CW, Lai JC. Reporting functional status in UNOS: The weakness of the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale. Clinical transplantation 2017. PMID: 28580753


  11. Carey EJ, Lai JC, Wang CW, Dasarathy S, Lobach I, Montano-Loza AJ, Dunn MA. A multicenter study to define sarcopenia in patients with end-stage liver disease. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017. PMID: 28240805


  12. Wang CW, Feng S, Covinsky KE, Hayssen H, Zhou LQ, Yeh BM, Lai JC. A Comparison of Muscle Function, Mass, and Quality in Liver Transplant Candidates: Results From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Transplantation 2016. PMID: 27314169


  13. Wang CW, Covinsky KE, Feng S, Hayssen H, Segev DL, Lai JC. Functional impairment in older liver transplantation candidates: From the functional assessment in liver transplantation study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2015. PMID: 26359787


  14. Noguchi T, Wang CW, Pan H, Welsh DK. Fibroblast circadian rhythms of PER2 expression depend on membrane potential and intracellular calcium. Volume 29 of Issue 6. Chronobiology international 2012. PMID: 22734566


  15. Leise TL, Wang CW, Gitis PJ, Welsh DK. Persistent cell-autonomous circadian oscillations in fibroblasts revealed by six-week single-cell imaging of PER2::LUC bioluminescence. Volume 7 of Issue 3. PloS one 2012. PMID: 22479387