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 with AOA honors. Dr. Flanagan graduated early from medical school to work in the cardiac ICU as part of the COVID-19 Surge Staffing Response prior to starting residency.

Dr. Flanagan is completing an ACGME fellowship in Clinical Informatics within the UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (Doc-IT) during the 2023-2025 professional development period. She is interested in clinical informatics, and the use of AI/machine learning to augment vascular surgery practice, clinical research, and efficiency in care-delivery. Specifically, she is passionate about the responsible application of AI/ML to transform unstructured clinical data (e.g. notes, images) into structured data to improve administrative efficiency and research database quality. 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 improving surveillance for aortic pathologies.