Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Wang earned his PhD in biomedical engineering at Cornell University and his MD at the University of California, San Diego. Following his internship at Kaweah Delta Health District in Visalia, CA, Dr. Wang completed his diagnostic radiology residency at UC San Diego followed by a body MRI diagnostic radiology fellowship at Stanford.
Dr. Wang has received the Resoundant Innovation Research Award from the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance, as well as the RSNA Resident Research Award, and the Society of Abdominal Radiology Wylie J. Dodds Research Award. He was the founding member and manager of the ultrasound clinic at UC San Diego Free Clinic, and a founding member of RAD-AID chapter at UC San Diego Health. He has published research on various aspects of quantitative imaging biomarkers for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, including automated CT and MRI liver segmentation and biometry, and hepatic MR elastography, with a long-term interest in developing automated, accurate, and reproducible quantitative imaging biomarkers to diagnose, stage, and monitor chronic liver disease.
Education
Fellowship, 2023 - , Body MRI Fellowship in Diagnostic Radiology. Stanford Unversity, Palo Alto, CA.
Residency, 2022 - , Diagnostic Radiology Residency, University of California, San Diego CA.
Internship, 2017 - , Transitional, Kaweah Delta Health District, Visalia, CA.
M.D., 2016 - , University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., 2011 - Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
B.S., 2006 - Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Honors and Awards
Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (top 5% of trainee abstracts in ISMRM), International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2023
Elliot C. Lasser Award for Excellence in Research, UC San Diego, Department of Radiology, 2022
Robert Mattrey Clinician-Scientist Award, UC San Diego, Department of Radiology, 2022
Resoundant Innovation Research Award, Society of Advanced Body Imaging (SABI), 2018
NIH Training Grant from the Clinical and Translation Research Institute, UC San Diego -- provides dedicated research funding for medical students to take advanced coursework and training in clinical research, UC San Diego, School of Medicine, 2015
NIH Summer Research Training Grant for Medical Students, UC San Diego, School of Medicine, 2013
Departmental Research Scholarship from Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2007
