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Grace Wang, MD, MSCE, DFSVS

Associate Professor of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Dr. Grace J. Wang is an Associate 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 has stayed on as faculty.
She completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology through the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania. Her research has used large scale databases to study trends in practice, predictors of outcomes, and gender and racial disparities in access to care in vascular surgery, utilizing 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. She has maintained an active role in the VQI and serves as the chair of the VQI TEVAR and Complex EVAR Registry, as well as the chair of the steering committee for the Gore TBE Registry, which collects data on patients undergoing complex endovascular aortic repair. She has participated in the SVS/STS Reporting Standards for Type B aortic dissection, the Society for Vascular Surgery Clinical Practice Guidelines for Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair, the 2022 AHA/ACC guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aortic disease, and the SVS TEVAR dissection surveillance project, making contributions to impactful documents relevant to the care of patients with aortic disease.
Her clinical interests include endovascular and surgical repair of thoracic, thoracoabdominal, and abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting, peripheral artery disease interventions, and revascularization, as well as dialysis access. She is the Vascular Aortic Director of the Penn Aortic Program as well as the Clinical Director of the Vascular Lab at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.



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