UChicago Faculty Physician
Betty Fan, DO
Betty Fan, DO
UChicago Faculty Physician
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Specialties
- General Surgery
- Breast Surgery
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
- Orland Park
- Crown Point, IN - Virginia Street
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Betty Fan, DO, is a highly skilled surgeon who specializes in breast surgery with expertise in treating both benign and malignant breast diseases. Dr. Fan's clinical practice includes comprehensive surgical procedures, such as breast conservation surgery, oncoplastics surgery, mastectomies, sentinel lymph node biopsies, and axillary lymph node dissections with axillary reverse mapping. She routinely works with her plastic surgery colleagues to offer immediate reconstruction for mastectomy patients and in incorporating immediate lymphatic repair (ILR), otherwise known commonly as LYMPHA, for patients needing extensive axillary lymph node surgery. Dr. Fan understands how personal these diagnoses are, and she is highly regarded for her compassionate approach to patient care. She is an advocate for patient education and shared-decision making.
She has published several research articles and been an invited speaker numerous times on topics that impact breast cancer patients. Dr. Fan’s research is especially interested in patient outcomes and de-escalation of therapy when appropriate.
Additionally, Dr. Fan is teaching and mentoring the next generation of surgeons by working directly with residents and fellows, providing surgical training on breast surgery. She serves on several national committees focused on improving surgical progress and innovation.
She has published several research articles and been an invited speaker numerous times on topics that impact breast cancer patients. Dr. Fan’s research is especially interested in patient outcomes and de-escalation of therapy when appropriate.
Additionally, Dr. Fan is teaching and mentoring the next generation of surgeons by working directly with residents and fellows, providing surgical training on breast surgery. She serves on several national committees focused on improving surgical progress and innovation.
Specialties
- General Surgery
- Breast Surgery
Areas of Expertise
- Benign Breast Diseases
- Breast Conservation Surgery
- Breast Cancer Surgery
- Immediate Lymphatic Repair (ILR)
- Oncoplastics Surgery
UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine - Hyde Park5758 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago IL 606371-888-824-0200
Board Certifications
- Surgery
Practicing Since
- 2002
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- UNTHSC - TCOM
Internship
- OUCOM/Doctors Hospital
Residency
- OUCOM/Doctors Hospital
Fellowship
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
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Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.