Alan Dang, MD

Alan Dang, MD

Alan Dang, MD

Associate Professor

Spine

VA Hospital - Spine

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Publications

Guinn JMV, Mayer RR, Li B, Dang ABC, Dang A, Wustrack R, Chou D. En bloc excision of sacroiliac chondrosarcoma aided by 3D laser printed modeling and stereotactic navigation. J Clin Neurosci. 2021 Mar; 85:64-66. PMID: 33581792

Chen JV, Dang ABC, Dang A. Comparing cost and print time estimates for six commercially-available 3D printers obtained through slicing software for clinically relevant anatomical models. 3D Print Med. 2021 Jan 06; 7(1):1. PMID: 33404847

Chen JV, Tanaka KS, Dang ABC, Dang A. Identifying a commercially-available 3D printing process that minimizes model distortion after annealing and autoclaving and the effect of steam sterilization on mechanical strength. 3D Print Med. 2020 Apr 15; 6(1):9. PMID: 32297041

Chen JV, Dang ABC, Lee CS, Dang ABC. 3D printed PLA Army-Navy retractors when used as linear retractors yield clinically acceptable tolerances. 3D Print Med. 2019 Nov 21; 5(1):16. PMID: 31754879

Alan B.C. Dang. The Sacroiliac Joint in 2019. Techniques in Orthopaedics. 2019 Jun 1; 34(2):69-69. PMID:

Dang ABC, Hong H, Lee K, Luan T, Reddy S, Kuo AC. Repurposing Human Osteoarthritic Cartilage as a Bone Graft Substitute in an Athymic Rat Posterolateral Spinal Fusion Model. Int J Spine Surg. 2018 Dec; 12(6):735-742. PMID: 30619678

Chu S, Chen N, Dang ABC, Kuo AC, Dang ABC. The Effects of Topical Vancomycin on Mesenchymal Stem Cells: More May Not Be Better. Int J Spine Surg. 2017; 11:12. PMID: 28765796

Lee LC, Genet M, Dang AB, Ge L, Guccione JM, Ratcliffe MB. Applications of computational modeling in cardiac surgery. J Card Surg. 2014 May; 29(3):293-302. PMID: 24708036

Alan B. C. Dang, Alexandra K. Schwartz, Steven R. Garfin. The Painful Sacroiliac Iliac Joint. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. 2014 Jan 1; 219-227. PMID:

Dang AB, Garfin SR. Can statistics alone add clinical meaning to non-specific billing databases? Commentary on an article by Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH, et al.: "Revision surgery following operations for lumbar stenosis". J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011 Nov 02; 93(21):e1281-2. PMID: 22048107

Dang AB, McCarthy MB, Dang AB, Chowaniec DM, Mazzocca AD. Effects of adding epinephrine to arthroscopic irrigation fluid on cultured chondrocyte survival in vitro. Arthroscopy. 2011 Aug; 27(8):1118-22. PMID: 21708446

Spang JT, Dang AB, Mazzocca A, Rincon L, Obopilwe E, Beynnon B, Arciero RA. The effect of medial meniscectomy and meniscal allograft transplantation on knee and anterior cruciate ligament biomechanics. Arthroscopy. 2010 Feb; 26(2):192-201. PMID: 20141982

Dang AC, Rodner CM. Unusual compression neuropathies of the forearm, part I: radial nerve. J Hand Surg Am. 2009 Dec; 34(10):1906-14. PMID: 19969199

Dang AC, Rodner CM. Unusual compression neuropathies of the forearm, part II: median nerve. J Hand Surg Am. 2009 Dec; 34(10):1915-20. PMID: 19969200

Dang AB, Hu SS, Tay BK. Biomechanics of the anterior longitudinal ligament during 8 g whiplash simulation following single- and contiguous two-level fusion: a finite element study. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2008 Mar 15; 33(6):607-11. PMID: 18344853

Dang AB, Guccione JM, Zhang P, Wallace AW, Gorman RC, Gorman JH, Ratcliffe MB. Effect of ventricular size and patch stiffness in surgical anterior ventricular restoration: a finite element model study. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Jan; 79(1):185-93. PMID: 15620941

Alan B.C Dang, Julius M Guccione, Jacob M Mishell, Peng Zhang, Arthur W Wallace, Robert C Gorman, Joseph H Gorman, Mark B Ratcliffe. 1068-123 Akinetic segments of myocardial infarction contain contractng myocytes: A finite element model study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2004 Mar 1; 43(5):a177. PMID:

Dang AB, Guccione JM, Mishell JM, Zhang P, Wallace AW, Gorman RC, Gorman JH, Ratcliffe MB. Akinetic myocardial infarcts must contain contracting myocytes: finite-element model study. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2005 Apr; 288(4):H1844-50. PMID: 15604126

Moore LK, Lee CS, Agha O, Liu M, Zhang H, Dang ABC, Dang A, Liu X, Feeley BT. A novel mouse model of hindlimb joint contracture with 3D-printed casts. J Orthop Res. 2022 12; 40(12):2865-2872. PMID: 35266583

Chen JV, Lee K, Tillinghast K, Halloran B, Dang ABC. Locally Delivered Ascorbic Acid and β-Glycerophosphate Augment Local Bone Graft in a Murine Model of 2-Level Posterior Spinal Fusion. Int J Spine Surg. 2021 Oct; 15(5):921-928. PMID: 34649952

Education

		University of California, San Diego	2012
		University of Connecticut	2011
	MD	University of California, San Francisco	2006

About Alan Dang, MD

Dr. Alan Dang joined the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of California San Francisco in 2011. Dr. Dang received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2001. He then received his medical degree in 2006 from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

While in medical school, he completed a research year from 2004-2005. Dr. Dang then went on to his orthopaedic surgery residency at the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the University of Connecticut in Farmington. He completed a fellowship in Spine Surgery at the University of California San Diego under Department chairman Dr. Steven R. Garfin.

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