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Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Division of General Surgery
Contact Information
415-885-7678 - Clinic Fax
415-885-3625 - Academic Office
415-885-3886 - Academic Fax
Emily.Finlayson@ucsfmedctr.org
BiographyEducation
- 1985-89 Yale University, New Haven, CT- B.A., Arts
- 1990-93 Stanford University, Stanford, CA - Pre-Med
- 1993-97 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA - M.D.
- 2000-02 Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH - M.S.
Residencies
- 1997-2000 University of California, San Francisco - Intern, General Surgery
- 2002-04 University of California, San Francisco - Resident, General Surgery
Fellowships
- 2000-02 V.A. Outcomes Group, V.A. Medical Center, White River Junction, VT - Fellow, Surgical Outcomes Research
- 2004-05 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - Fellow, Colon and Rectal Surgery
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 2005
- American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2006
Program Affiliations
- Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF
Clinical Expertise
- Anal Cancer
- Colitis
- Colon Cancer
- Constipation
- Crohn's Disease
- Diverticulitis
- Fecal Incontinence
- Hemorrhoids
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Pelvic Floor Disorders
- Presacral Tumors
- Rectal Cancer
- Ulcerative Colitis
Research Interests
- Surgical outcomes in frail elderly patients
Biography
Dr. Emily Finlayson is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Institute of Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Her clinical areas of expertise include colon and rectal cancer, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, with a focus on minimally invasive surgical techniques.
After completing her medical degree at Harvard Medical School, she trained in general surgery at UCSF and in colon and rectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In her post-doctorate training, she received a Master of Science from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School and completed a research fellowship with the VA Outcomes Group in White River Junction, Vermont. She was on faculty at the University of Michigan Department of Surgery and the Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation until she returned to UCSF in 2009. Her current research is in population-based surgical outcomes with a focus on functional outcomes in the frail elderly.
Selected Publications
- Finlayson EVA, Birkmeyer JD. Operative mortality with elective surgery in older adults. Effective Clinical Practice, 2001;4(4):172-7.
- Birkmeyer JD, Finlayson EVA, Birkmeyer CM. Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures: potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative. Surgery, 2001;130(3):415-22.
- Birkmeyer JD, Siewers AE, Finlayson EVA, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Batista I, Welch HG, Wennberg DE. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 2002;246(15):1128-37.
- Finlayson EVA, Birkmeyer JD, Siewers AE, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Adjusting surgical mortality rates for patient comorbidities: more harm than good? Surgery, 2002;132(5):787-94.
- Finlayson EVA, Birkmeyer JD. Effects of hospital volume on life expectancy after selected cancer operations: A decision analysis. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2003;196(3):410-7.
- Finlayson EVA, Goodney PP, Birkmeyer JD. Hospital volume and operative mortality in cancer surgery: a national study. Archives of Surgery, 2003;138(7):721-5.
