Dr. Grace J. Wang is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her general surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and then completed a Vascular and Endovascular fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she then stayed on as faculty.
Her clinical interests include carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting, and endovascular repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms. Dr. Wang is also Clinical Director of the Vascular Lab at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
She completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology through the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania. The degree has given her the ability to analyze large datasets and create predictive models to understand poor outcomes in vascular surgical patients. Her research focuses on using large scale databases to study trends in practice, predictors of outcomes, and gender and racial disparities in access to care in vascular surgery. She has utilized the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), National Surgical Quality Improvement (NSQIP) as well as the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI), and the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) registries to conduct these studies. She is active in the VQI and is the Co-Chair of the Research Advisory Council which plays a critical role in facilitating research projects utilizing the VQI database. She is also the chair of the VQI TEVAR and Complex EVAR Registry, as well as the steering committee for the Gore TBE Registry.