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Tiffany Chao, MD, General Surgery, San Jose, CA

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General Surgery • San Jose, CA

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  • Office

    751 S Bascom Ave
    Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
    San Jose, CA 95128
    Phone+1 408-885-6067

Summary

  • Tiffany E. Chao, MD, MPH, FACS

    Tiffany Chao is a board-certified general/trauma surgeon at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at Stanford Medical School, and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. She is a co-director of the undergraduate course HUMBIO 129S: Global Public Health and the medical school seminar SURG 236: Seminar in Global Surgery and Anesthesia, both Winter Quarter classes.

    Prior to her current roles, she served as a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow with Harvard Medical School's Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. There, she conducted cost-effectiveness analyses and pursued expansion of surgical delivery for indigent populations through surgical workforce and infrastructure development internationally, working primarily in Liberia, Kenya, and Haiti. She completed the CTSA/Lucile Packard Innovation Fellowship at Stanford Biodesign, eventually becoming a co-founder of Zenflow, Inc., a venture-backed medical device company working in minimally-invasive therapy for prostate disease.

    Dr. Chao holds dual Bachelor's degrees in Symbolic Systems and Psychology from Stanford University, as well as MD and MPH degrees from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed General Surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Education & Training

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Surgery, 2009 - 2016
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiClass of 2009
  • Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Mount Sinai School of MedicineM.P.H., M.P.H., 2005 - 2007
  • Stanford University
    Stanford UniversityB.S., Symbolic Systems, 2000 - 2004
  • Stanford University
    Stanford UniversityB.A., Psychology, 2000 - 2004

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2016 - 2026
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 2012 - 2017
  • American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
  • First Prize Poster Competition University of Utah Center for Global Surgery Extreme Affordability Conference, 2013
  • Second Place Poster Competition Harvard Medical School Surgery Research Day, 2013
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Cost-Effectiveness in Global Surgery: Pearls, Pitfalls, and a Checklist  
    Shrime, M.G., Alkire, B.C., Grimes, C., Chao, T.E., Poenaru, D, Verguet, S, World J Surg, 1/1/2017
  • A Multinational Evaluation of Timely Access to Basic Surgical Care: A Geospatial Analysis  
    Knowlton, LM, Esquivel M, Uribe-Leitz T, Chackungal S, Chao TE, Evans F, Hendel S, LeBrun DG, Notrica M, Shockley R, McQueen KA, Spain DA, Weiser TG, Bull World Health Organ, 1/1/2017
  • Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012  
    Weiser TG, Haynes AB, Molina G, et al, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1/1/2016
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Concept Note: Global Surgery Care Delivery 
    Patel P, Enumah S, Chao TE, Rosenberg J, Kotagal M, Riviello R, Weintraub RHarvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA2015
  • Surgery at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Rural Kenya 
    Chao TE, Patel P, Rosenberg J, Riviello RHarvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA2015

Lectures

  • Seminar in Global Surgery and Anesthesia 
    1/1/2017
  • Introduction to Global Public Health 
    1/1/2017
  • Global Surgery at Stanford 
    1/1/2017
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Other

  • Surgery at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Rural Kenya 
    Chao TE, Rosenberg J, Patel P, Riviello R, Weintraub R, Lancet Commission on Global Surgery
    Lindon, United Kingdom - 1/1/2015
  • Analysis of the Factors Influencing HIV-Positive Patients’ Adherence to Antiretroviral Regimens in Rural Wenxi County, Shanxi Province, China (Thesis) 
    Michaels BL
    1/1/2007

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, French

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