Karen Wang, MD, MHS
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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.
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral fellowYale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System (2016)
- MHSYale School of Medicine (2012)
- Post-doctoral fellowRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program (2012)
- ResidentMontefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2007)
- MDBaylor College of Medicine (2004)
Certifications
- Board CertificationAB of Preventive Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2017)
Departments & Organizations
- 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