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Janice Jin Hwang, MD

Assistant Professor Adjunct
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Assistant Professor Adjunct

Biography

Dr. Hwang is an endocrinologist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Endocrinology at the Yale School of Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2001 with a major in molecular biology followed by Harvard Medical School in 2006. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA and also served as a Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Hwang received her fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital and moved to Yale in 2012 to continue her research training with Dr. Robert Sherwin. Her academic interests are at the intersection of metabolism, neuroscience and imaging. Her research focuses on using advanced brain imaging modalities such as functional MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy coupled with classic investigative techniques in metabolism to understand the effects of diabetes and obesity on the brain. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Yale Diabetes Research Center, the Endocrine Fellows Foundation, and the American Diabetes Association. She is the recipient of several awards for her research including the Marilyn Fishman Award for Diabetes Research, the Metabolism Junior Investigator award as well as a Yale Center for Clinical Investigation Junior Faculty Scholars Award.

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Education & Training

MHS
Yale University (2017)
Research Fellow
Yale School of Medicine (2014)
Clinical and Research Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital (2012)
Chief Medical Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2011)
Residency
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2009)
MD
Harvard Medical School (2006)
AB
Princeton University, Molecular Biology (2001)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Brain Diseases, Metabolic; Clinical Trials as Topic; Cognition Disorders; Cognitive Neuroscience; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Endocrinology; Functional Neuroimaging; Metabolism; Neuroimaging; Neurosciences; Obesity; Translational Research, Biomedical

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Janice Jin Hwang's published research.

Publications

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2021

2020

Clinical Trials

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