Colleen Flanagan, M.D.
Resident (PGY-2)
Vascular Surgery (Integrated)
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Biography
Colleen Flanagan, MD is an Integrated (0+5) Vascular Surgery Resident at UCSF. She graduated with honors from Tufts University with degrees in Biology and History. She then worked in a healthcare consulting firm focused on transactional and claims-based database analytics. She subsequently received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, graduating in the top 10% of her class, a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, and with awards for both compassionate care and academic merit. She graduated early to work in the cardiac intensive care unit at UMass Medical Center as part of the COVID-19 Surge Staffing Response prior to starting residency at UCSF.Dr. Flanagan has presented and published numerous projects within the scope of vascular surgery including on complex aortic pathology, carotid disease, peripheral arterial occlusive disease, and gender issues in vascular surgery leadership. She is interested in clinical informatics, and the use of data science and machine learning to augment vascular surgery practice. Many of her research interests are population health-based and include medical optimization of vascular surgery patients, increasing appropriate vascular surgery referrals and screening, and understanding social determinants of vascular disease.
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- Carotid artery disease
- Data Science
- Population Health
- Vascular Surgery
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Aortic Aneurysms
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- Matthay ZA, Flanagan CP, Sanders K, Smith EJ, Lancaster EM, Gasper WJ, Kornblith LZ, Hiramoto JS, Conte MS, Iannuzzi JC. Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism after Vascular Surgery and Implications for Chemoprophylaxis Strategies. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord. 2021 Oct 09. View in PubMed
- Simons JP, Crawford AS, Flanagan CP, Aiello FA, Arous EJ, Judelson DR, Messina LM, Robichaud DI, Valliere SA, Schanzer A. Evolution of fenestrated/branched endovascular aortic aneurysm repair complexity and outcomes at an organized center for the treatment of complex aortic disease. J Vasc Surg. 2021 04; 73(4):1148-1155.e2. View in PubMed
- Flanagan CP, Crawford AS, Arous EJ, Aiello FA, Schanzer A, Simons JP. Preoperative functional status predicts 2-year mortality in patients undergoing fenestrated/branched endovascular aneurysm repair. J Vasc Surg. 2021 08; 74(2):383-395. View in PubMed
- Flanagan CP, Sheth PD, Simons JP. Positional transient loss of consciousness and hemispheric deficits in the setting of severe four-vessel extracranial cerebrovascular disease. J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2019 Dec; 5(4):461-466. View in PubMed
In the News
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - April 27, 2022Vascular Surgery Integrated Resident, Colleen Flanagan, MD (PGY-2), was recently accepted to the UCSF Department of Medicine Clinical Informatics Fellowship (CIF). The Clinical Informatics Fellowship (CIF) is a two-year program for physicians who have successfully completed any ACGME/ABMS residency and who wish to develop and advance a professional and primary interest in informatics. The UCSF CIF seeks to train physicians who will go on to become leaders in their specialty as well as in the [...]