Jason K.C. Tong

About

Jason K.C. Tong, MD, MSHP, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, within the Department of Surgery. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2012, majoring in Biology with a minor in Religion. He earned his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and subsequently obtained a Master of Science in Health Policy (MSHP) from the same institution in 2022. His professional focus includes surgical management, with particular expertise in colon and rectal surgery. Dr. Tong has contributed to research on various topics such as the management of chronic mesh erosion, outcomes following inflammatory bowel disease surgeries, and health system structures addressing structural racism. His work also involves evaluating surgical outcomes, healthcare costs, and disparities, with a strong emphasis on improving patient care and advancing surgical practices.

Research topics

• Pathology
• Virology
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

  JAMA · 2023 · 831 citations

  Importance: SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with persistent, relapsing, or new symptoms or other health effects occurring after acute infection, termed postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as long COVID. Characterizing PASC requires analysis of prospectively and uniformly collected data from diverse uninfected and infected individuals. Objective: To develop a definition of PASC using self-reported symptoms and describe PASC frequencies across cohorts, vaccination stat…

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• Diagnostic accuracy of the <scp>PLASMIC</scp> score in patients with suspected thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: A systematic review and <scp>meta‐analysis</scp>

  Transfusion · 2020-08-05 · 77 citations

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  BACKGROUND: The PLASMIC score was developed to identify patients with thrombotic microangiopathy who are most likely to have immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and benefit from therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE). PLASMIC scores of 0-4, 5, and 6-7 are said to correspond to low, intermediate, and high probability of TTP, respectively. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on the diagnostic accuracy of the PLASMIC score in adults with suspected TT…

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• Learning from local to global: An efficient distributed algorithm for modeling time-to-event data

  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2020-03-28 · 75 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: We developed and evaluated a privacy-preserving One-shot Distributed Algorithm to fit a multicenter Cox proportional hazards model (ODAC) without sharing patient-level information across sites. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using patient-level data from a single site combined with only aggregated information from other sites, we constructed a surrogate likelihood function, approximating the Cox partial likelihood function obtained using patient-level data from all sites. By maximizing the su…

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• Assessing the benefit–risk profile of newer glucose‐lowering drugs: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis of randomized outcome trials

  Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism · 2024-12-26 · 12 citations

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  AIM: To comprehensively evaluate the benefits and risks of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP4i), and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A systematic search of PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) from inception to November 2023 to identify randomized cardiovascular and kidney outcome trials that enrolled adults with type 2 diabetes, heart failure, or chronic k…

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• Racial/ethnic differences in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in the United States

  Nature Communications · 2025-01-21 · 7 citations

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  Racial/ethnic differences are associated with the symptoms and conditions of post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in adults. These differences may exist among children and warrant further exploration. We conducted a retrospective cohort study with difference-in-differences analyzes to assess these differences in children and adolescents under the age of 21. The study utilized data from the RECOVER Initiative in the United States, which aims to learn about the long-term effects of COVI…

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Frequent coauthors

• Yong Chen

  Chongqing Normal University

  106 shared

• Rui Duan

  Harvard University

  31 shared

• Chongliang Luo

  Washington University in St. Louis

  25 shared

• Yiwen Lu

  Applied Mathematics (United States)

  24 shared

• Jiang Bian

  Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

  23 shared

• Christopher B. Forrest

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  22 shared

• Nathan M. Pajor

  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  18 shared

• Bingyu Zhang

  California University of Pennsylvania

  16 shared

Labs

• Department of Surgery, University of PennsylvaniaPI

Education

• Ph.D. student, Department of Biostatistics

  University of Pennsylvania

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