Jessica Tan, MD

Volunteer Clinical Professor
HS Asst. Clinical Professor
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Biography

Jessica C. Tan, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Residence in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 2006, and she completed a one-year transitional internship from the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California in 2007. From 2007-2011, Dr. Tan completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency from the University of California, San Diego, followed by a Neuroradiology fellowship from the UCSF in 2012. In June 2013, Dr. Tan accepted the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Neuroradiology at SFGH.

As an attending physician, Dr. Tan provides neuroradiology services at SFGH where she supervises radiology residents in protocoling and interpreting diagnostic neuroradiology exams. She gives lectures for radiology residents and neuroradiology fellows. Dr. Tan’s main research interest is in stroke imaging and disorders of CSF flow such as intracranial hypotension. She is also interested in vascular imaging in the setting of acute trauma and imaging of carotid plaque.

Dr. Tan has provided her clinical services nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Radiological Society of North America, the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the American Society of Neuroradiology, and the Association of Women Radiologists. She has written 4 peer-reviewed articles and 10 abstracts.

Expertise:
Neuroradiology

Specialty:
Radiology

Professional Interests:
Stroke imaging, disorders of CSF flow such as intracranial hypotension, vascular imaging in the setting of acute trauma, imaging of carotid plaque

Education and Training:
• Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
• Internship: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, California
• Residency: University of California, San Diego - Diagnostic Radiology
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco - Neuroradiology

Education

M.D., 2006 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Clinical Fellowship, - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Honors and Awards

Quarterly Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2005
Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
Introduction to Academic Radiology Program, American Roentgen Ray Society, 2000
President’s Scholar, Stanford University, 1999

Publications

Tan JC, Dillon WP, Liu S, Adler F, Smith WS, Wintermark M. Systematic comparison of perfusion-CT and CT-angiography in acute stroke patients. Ann Neurol. 2007 Jun; 61(6):533-43.
Matthay KK, Tan JC, Villablanca JG, Yanik GA, Veatch J, Franc B, Twomey E, Horn B, Reynolds CP, Groshen S, Seeger RC, Maris JM. Phase I dose escalation of iodine-131-metaiodobenzylguanidine with myeloablative chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplantation in refractory neuroblastoma: a new approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy Consortium Study. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Jan 20; 24(3):500-6.