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Vincent S. Fan, MD, MPH
Vincent S. Fan, MD, MPH
VA Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
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Dr. Fan joined the VA Puget Sound in 2003. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in molecular biology and history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Dr. Fan completed his medical training at the University of Minnesota in 1995, and his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington in 1998. He obtained a MPH degree during a two-year general internal medicine fellowship at the Seattle VA. He then returned to complete a pulmonary fellowship at the University of Washington.
Dr. Fan's research interests are in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the development of interventions to decrease COPD exacerbations. Dr. Fan has studied measures of disease severity to predict patients at high risk for exacerbations, and identifying modifiable risk factors for COPD hospitalizations. He has also developed and validated a comorbidity measure for use in the outpatient setting. Dr. Fan is Co-chair, with Dr. Dennis Niewoehner at the Minneapolis VA, of VA Cooperative Study number 560 to determine the efficacy of a comprehensive self-management education program for COPD with the goal to reduce COPD hospitalizations.
Dr. Fan's HSR&D career development award will enable him to pursue his interest in developing methods to identify patients at risk for COPD exacerbations, and to develop and evaluate behavioral interventions to improve patient self-management in COPD. He has been involved with the Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project with his mentor, working on projects related to comorbidity, disease severity, pharmacoepidemiology and patient satisfaction.
Dr. Fan's recent publications include a "Comparison of Risk Adjustment Measures Based on Self-Report, Administrative Data and Pharmacy Records to Predict Clinical Outcomes" published in Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology and "Physiologic Variables and Functional Status Independently Predict Exacerbations of COPD" in press in COPD.
Dr. Fan's mentors are Stephan Fihn, MD, MPH, a nationally recognized leader in outpatient outcome measurements, and J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, a pulmonologist with expertise in quality of life and end of life care in COPD.
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