Annie Yang

Annie Yang, MD joins the National Clinical Scholars Program at Yale after completing her Internal Medicine residency at UCLA, where she developed a clinical interest in hospitalist medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College and then medical school at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She hopes to improve care quality and address health disparities among vulnerable populations, particularly among the elderly and the underinsured, by studying health care utilization and low-value care in order to shape and inform future health policy. Her previous work includes characterizing the aggressiveness of cancer care at the end-of-life among New Jersey Medicaid beneficiaries and low-value prescribing of antipsychotics among patients with dementia. As a fellow, her research interests include studying the quality of care of long-term care and skilled-nursing facilities, and assessing care delivery among Medicaid beneficiaries by evaluating the impact of changes to Medicaid policies.