Dr. Yang has won a number of awards over the course of his career, such as the 2007 Silver Pear Mentoring Award-Research from Emory University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and American Society for Clinical Investigation. His research interests include understanding the molecular mechanisms that control proliferation and differentiation of the intestinal epithelial cell.
Dr. Yang earned his MD at UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J.; and his PhD at Princeton (N.J.) University. He completed his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he also completed his gastroenterology fellowship.
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