Karen Wang, MD, MHS
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Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Biography
Dr. Wang is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine and core faculty at the Equity Research and Innovation Center and Yale Center for Medical Informatics. Her work is at the intersection of health equity, informatics, and data justice with a focus in optimizing health and health-related information, data, and technology for communities that have been marginalized. Her research goal is to improve the health of communities that have been marginalized by engaging them in the collection and use of health data and improving the quality of social and structural determinants of health data, such as race, ethnicity, and residential address.
She leverages a participatory approach to center communities in the design, collection, (re-) use of their health data; understand communities' information and technology needs, improve information resources, and accelerate the dissemination of useful data back to communities, from electronic health record data to research study data.
Appointments
General Internal Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryBiostatistics
Assistant ProfessorSecondaryBiomedical Informatics & Data Science
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Biostatistics
- Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity (CEHE)
- Center for Medical Informatics
- General Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- SEICHE Center for Health and Justice
- Yale Biomedical Informatics & Computing
- Yale Center for Asylum Medicine
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Yale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System (2016)
- MHS
- Yale School of Medicine (2012)
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program (2012)
- Resident
- Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2007)
- MD
- Baylor College of Medicine (2004)
Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
Research
Links & Media
News
- June 25, 2024
Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
- March 26, 2024
Heckmann and Wong Receive R01 award from National Institute of Mental Health for System Dynamics Modeling to Promote Health Equity in Management of Agitation
- July 13, 2023
Department of Internal Medicine Promotions and Appointments (July 2023)
- March 08, 2023
Faculty Network Spotlight: NGN