Nancy Wang
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Emergency Medicine
- Member, Child Health Research Institute
Key Documents
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Associate Professor Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Stanford Medical School (2010 - present)
- Associate Director Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Stanford University Hospital (2002 - present)
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital (2001 - 2010)
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Stanford University Hospital (2001 - 2010)
- Course director - International Health, Stanford University (2000 - 2003)
- Course director - Sophomore seminar, Stanford University (2001 - 2003)
Honors and Awards
- Career Development Award (K23), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2007-2012)
- Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Career Development Award, Emergency Medicine Foundation (2006-2007)
- Clinical Teaching Award, Stanford Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2005)
- Pediatric Health Disparity Research and Advocacy Fellowship, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital (2004-2006)
- Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, Kellogg Foundation (1997-2000)
- Harry S. Truman Scholar, Harry S. Truman Foundation (1983-1990)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | Oakland Children's Hospital, Pediatric Emergency Medicine (1999) |
| Residency: | Stanford Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (1997) |
| MD: | Stanford Medical School, Medicine (1993) |
| BA: | Harvard University, East Asian Studies (1986) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Children's Safety Center, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Child Family Health International
- Disparities in pediatric trauma care, Stanford Hospital
- Family Resource Desk, Stanford Hospital
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Nancy Ewen Wang has strong interest and dedication to, community health, education, and researching disparities in pediatric emergency care, both internationally and in California. Currently Dr. Wang serves as Associate Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Among her teaching endeavors, she has served as course director of the population health curriculum at the Stanford School of Medicine, which emphasizes population health and community collaboration. In conjunction with Child Health International, she has initiated an advanced pediatric life support curriculum in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Outside the scope of the medical school, Dr. Wang is active in undergraduate education. She has served as course director of the Human Biology undergraduate course “International Public Health”, as well a the sophomore seminar which focuses on teaching students about the social and economic aspects of international health. She is presently working with the undergraduate student group, Family Resource Desk, which provides information about community resources to patients and their families in the Emergency Department. In addition, Dr. Wang has worked extensively with medical and non-medical students as academic advisor. Dr. Wang is also founding member and serves on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit organization, International Medical Options, that serves to increase educational opportunities and resources for health professionals working internationally. Internationally, Dr. Wang has worked extensively in Latin America in countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and Bolivia as a practicing physician as well as medical educator for Latin American medical students, residents and physicians. Dr. Wang has a strong interest in decreasing health outcome disparities in the pediatric emergency medicine population. Her current research includes investigating disparities in trauma access in the California pediatric population.
Publications
- A Practical Guide to Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Caring for Children in the Emergency Department Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010..
- Variation in prehospital use and uptake of the national Field Triage Decision Scheme. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2013 Apr-Jun; (2): 135-48
- Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States. Ann Emerg Med. 2013
- The trade-offs in field trauma triage: a multiregion assessment of accuracy metrics and volume shifts associated with different triage strategies. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013; (5): 1298-306; discussion 1306
- Deciphering the use and predictive value of "emergency medical services provider judgment" in out-of-hospital trauma triage: a multisite, mixed methods assessment. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012; (5): 1239-48
- Evaluating the use of existing data sources, probabilistic linkage, and multiple imputation to build population-based injury databases across phases of trauma care. Acad Emerg Med. 2012; (4): 469-80
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