Alan Dang, MD | UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies

CA3D+ Co-Director

M_Orthopaedic Surgery

My clinical practice is exclusively at the San Francisco VA Health System. I have an active academic role at UCSF with research interests in 3D printing and medical device innovation and a capstone mentor for the UCSF/UC Berkeley Masters in Translational Medicine program.

I am an Associate Editor for the journal, 3D Printing in Medicine

Publications

A novel mouse model of hindlimb joint contracture with 3D-printed casts.

Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society

Moore LK, Lee CS, Agha O, Liu M, Zhang H, Dang ABC, Dang A, Liu X, Feeley BT

Locally Delivered Ascorbic Acid and β-Glycerophosphate Augment Local Bone Graft in a Murine Model of 2-Level Posterior Spinal Fusion.

International journal of spine surgery

Chen JV, Lee K, Tillinghast K, Halloran B, Dang ABC

En bloc excision of sacroiliac chondrosarcoma aided by 3D laser printed modeling and stereotactic navigation.

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

Guinn JMV, Mayer RR, Li B, Dang ABC, Dang A, Wustrack R, Chou D

Comparing cost and print time estimates for six commercially-available 3D printers obtained through slicing software for clinically relevant anatomical models.

3D printing in medicine

Chen JV, 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 printing in medicine

Chen JV, Tanaka KS, Dang ABC, Dang A

3D printed PLA Army-Navy retractors when used as linear retractors yield clinically acceptable tolerances.

3D printing in medicine

Chen JV, Dang ABC, Lee CS, Dang ABC

The Sacroiliac Joint in 2019.

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Alan B.C. Dang

Repurposing Human Osteoarthritic Cartilage as a Bone Graft Substitute in an Athymic Rat Posterolateral Spinal Fusion Model.

International journal of spine surgery

Dang ABC, Hong H, Lee K, Luan T, Reddy S, Kuo AC

The Effects of Topical Vancomycin on Mesenchymal Stem Cells: More May Not Be Better.

International journal of spine surgery

Chu S, Chen N, Dang ABC, Kuo AC, Dang ABC

Applications of computational modeling in cardiac surgery.

Journal of cardiac surgery

Lee LC, Genet M, Dang AB, Ge L, Guccione JM, Ratcliffe MB

The Painful Sacroiliac Iliac Joint.

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Alan B. C. Dang, Alexandra K. Schwartz, Steven R. Garfin

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".

The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume

Dang AB, Garfin SR

Effects of adding epinephrine to arthroscopic irrigation fluid on cultured chondrocyte survival in vitro.

Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association

Dang AB, McCarthy MB, Dang AB, Chowaniec DM, Mazzocca AD

The effect of medial meniscectomy and meniscal allograft transplantation on knee and anterior cruciate ligament biomechanics.

Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association

Spang JT, Dang AB, Mazzocca A, Rincon L, Obopilwe E, Beynnon B, Arciero RA