Jacky Yeung, MD

Dr. Jacky Yeung is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who started residency in neurosurgery in 2013 after completing undergraduate studies at University of British Columbia in Honors Physiology and his MD degree at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and was elected to the AANS Young Neurosurgeons Committee in 2016. He obtained his fellowship training at the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Sydney, Australia under Dr. Charles Teo. During that time, he published widely on the use of machine learning to study the human functional connectome and was the first neurosurgeon to publish on the use of personalized pre-operative brain mapping during intracerebral surgeries.

He was the recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. As a tumor immunologist, he identified the presence of specific antigens in childhood and adult ependymomas, which led to a NIH-funded clinical trial utilizing a peptide vaccine (#NCT01795313). He focused on mechanisms of immune escape in adult gliomas, specifically the relationship between LOH of HLA Class I and decreased survival in GBM patients. During residency, he was the recipient of the prestigious AANS Tumor Section Research Award and focused on identifying novel immune check-point molecules under the mentorship of Lieping Chen, MD, PhD. To date, he has characterized the tumor immune microenvironment in malignant meningiomas and identified a major mechanism by which these tumors evades anti-tumor immunity.