Ning Tang, MD Clinical Instructor Medical Director for Ambulatory Quality and Safety

Education and Training
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Primary Care Track

Areas of Interest
quality improvement
patient safety and medical errors
health care financing
organizational design and behavior
primary care redesign
chronic disease management
health policy

Current Research and Academic Activities

Dr. Tang is a practicing internist and has research and operational interests in quality improvement and patient safety. She is the Division and the Medical Center's first Medical Director for Ambulatory Quality and Safety. In this role, she is responsible for developing a comprehensive program to assess the quality and safety in UCSF ambulatory practices and care sites. She is the physician liaison for all ambulatory quality and patient safety initiatives and works closely with the hospitalist division to coordinate related inpatient activities. Dr. Tang is also a member of the UCSF Practice Innovations Network, where she is studying the development, adoption, and diffusion of innovative computer-assisted technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivered in primary care and urgent care settings.

Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Tang analyzed hospital readmission rates of Medicare beneficiaries at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, MA. She identified key interventions at primary care delivery sites, which are currently being tested to reduce hospital readmission rates. She is a graduate of MGH's primary care residency program. Dr. Tang also studied at Harvard Business School, where she wrote a case study on an Italian hospital designed from the ground-up by engineers to optimize efficiency and quality. Prior to medical school, Dr. Tang worked as a research assistant at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where she managed the Secretary's Quality Improvement Initiative, a Department of Health and Human Services cooperative to improve quality of care in the US.