Yan Yan, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Public Health Sciences
Specialties
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Study design
- Data analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Developing prognostic models
- Comparative effectiveness studies
Meet Dr. Yan
Dr. Yan Yan is an epidemiologist, applying the latest epidemiological and biostatistical methods to support clinical and population health research in the medical community.
His research involves risk model development, validation, observational and causal inference method with application to clinical outcome comparative effectiveness studies.
Dr. Yan earned his medical degree from Peking Union Medical University. He also earned a doctorate in epidemiology and a master in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Degrees
Medical Degree
Peking Union Medical University, Beijing, China
1986
Doctorate in Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1998
Master of Health Science in Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1995
Master of Arts
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1993
Research interests
As an epidemiologist and applied biostatistician, Dr. Yan’s routine work is to collaborate with clinicians and researchers for study design, data analysis, paper preparations and grant applications in the medical school community, especially in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Siteman Cancer Center.
His research interests include competing risks, longitudinal data analyses, developing and validating prognostic models with applications in cancer prevention and treatment as well as applying casual inference theory and methods in comparative effectiveness studies.