Tiffany Chao

After graduating from Stanford (B.S. Symbolic Systems, B.A. Psychology), Tiffany Chao obtained her MD and MPH from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She trained in the General Surgery residency program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, during which time she worked with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School as a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow. She joined Stanford Biodesign as an Innovation Fellow, eventually co-founding Zenflow, Inc., a venture-backed medical device company working in minimally-invasive therapy for prostate disease.

Dr. Chao is currently a general/trauma surgeon at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, an Adjunct Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery in the School of Medicine, and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. Her clinical and research interests are in global surgery, including cost-effectiveness analysis, surgical device innovation, and expansion of surgical delivery for low-income populations through surgical workforce and infrastructure development. She has been involved in a number of international clinical, research, and education projects, and holds medical licenses in Liberia and Uganda.

Currently teaching