Jiangnan Wang, M.D., M.Sc.
Dr. Wang has served as an Attending Physician in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and Consultant in Spinal Cord Injury and Cardiology in Rancho's Department of Neurorehabilitation since 2004. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Dr. Wang functioned as Attending Physician in Cardiology and Medical Consultant in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at Rancho from 2000-2004.
Dr. Wang earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, China where he completed his residency training in Internal Medicine. He completed fellowships in Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Rancho and at The First Teaching Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University. He completed an American Heart Association research fellowship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Wang earned his Master of Science degree in Molecular Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in the following areas:
- Metabolic syndrome
- Insulin resistance
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease
- Alternative medicine for spinal cord injury
- Acupuncture treatment for neurogenic pain and neurogenic bladder and bowel
- Endothelial dysfunction
- Congestive heart failure
- Cardiovascular disease in patients with spinal cord injury
- Mechanisms of positive inotropic drug digitalis>
- Regulation of Na pump
- Na-Ca exchanger
- Calsequestrin and atrial natriuretic factor in hypertension and dilated cardiomyopathy
- Ventricular late potentials and arrhythmia
For more information about Dr. Wang, please see his Curriculum Vitae Highlights.