Karen Wang, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)Cards
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2025
Patient perspectives on safety and privacy in sexual orientation and gender identity data collection
Lewis J, Alpert A, Galusha D, Faria A, Hirschman A, Wolfe H, Hart L, Nunez-Smith M, Wang K. Patient perspectives on safety and privacy in sexual orientation and gender identity data collection. JNCI Monographs 2025, 2025: 170-176. PMID: 40671545, PMCID: PMC12268159, DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgaf015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGender identity data collectionIdentity data collectionHealth careHealth systemHealth-care qualityHealth-care professionalsFront desk staffGender minoritiesData collectionGender minority communitiesPatient safetyPatient perspectiveSexual orientationPatient concernsGender identity questionMinority participantsHealthCareMinority communitiesEpidemiological dataGender identityHospitalized patientsParticipantsIdentical questionsGenderDesigning Technology-Assisted Interventions for Justice-Impacted Black American Women.
McCall T, Lowery A, Massey B, Swaminath M, Afrose S, Saunders M, Wang K. Designing Technology-Assisted Interventions for Justice-Impacted Black American Women. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2025, 2024: 854-860. PMID: 41726414, PMCID: PMC12919450.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTechnology-assisted interventionsCriminal legal systemPost-release supportBlack womenHealth outcomesMental health care accessLegal systemInadequate mental health resourcesPost-releaseHealth care accessMental health resourcesElectronic health recordsLack of insuranceCare accessHealth recordsHealth resourcesReintegrationFocus groupsPrivacy protectionTechnology-assistedInterventionIncarcerationHealthWomenTransportation issuesSocial determinants of health extraction from clinical notes across institutions using large language models
Keloth V, Selek S, Chen Q, Gilman C, Fu S, Dang Y, Chen X, Hu X, Zhou Y, He H, Fan J, Wang K, Brandt C, Tao C, Liu H, Xu H. Social determinants of health extraction from clinical notes across institutions using large language models. Npj Digital Medicine 2025, 8: 287. PMID: 40379919, PMCID: PMC12084648, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-01645-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharacterizing Emergency Department Care for Patients With Histories of Incarceration
Huang T, Socrates V, Ovchinnikova P, Faustino I, Kumar A, Safranek C, Chi L, Wang E, Puglisi L, Wong A, Wang K, Taylor R. Characterizing Emergency Department Care for Patients With Histories of Incarceration. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2025, 6: 100022. PMID: 40012663, PMCID: PMC11852703, DOI: 10.1016/j.acepjo.2024.100022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCare processesHistory of incarcerationRestraint useEmergency departmentHealth care team membersMeasuring care processesCompare socio-demographic characteristicsCare team membersHealth care disparitiesEmergency department careHealth care systemSocio-demographic characteristicsUnique patient encountersMultivariate logistic regressionCare disparitiesHealth behaviorsED settingCare systemPatient encountersSubstance use historyMedical adviceLogistic regressionDemographic characteristicsTeam membersCare
2024
Community Comfort With Automatic Sharing of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Between Health Care Settings: Cross-Sectional Study
Brazer N, Tessier-Sherman B, Galusha D, Suttiratana S, Liu C, Kim K, Abraham M, Nunez-Smith M, Wang K. Community Comfort With Automatic Sharing of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Between Health Care Settings: Cross-Sectional Study. Interactive Journal Of Medical Research 2024, 14: e67288. PMID: 41052417, PMCID: PMC12500222, DOI: 10.2196/67288.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLeveraging Electronic Health Records to Assess Residential Mobility Among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
Wang K, Hendrickson Z, Miller M, Abel E, Skanderson M, Erdos J, Womack J, Brandt C, Desai M, Han L. Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Assess Residential Mobility Among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration. Medical Care 2024, 62: 458-463. PMID: 38848139, PMCID: PMC12902927, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000002017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVeterans Health AdministrationElectronic health recordsResidential addressesHealth recordsHealth AdministrationLeveraging electronic health recordsInfluence health care utilizationVeterans Health Administration dataAssociations of sociodemographicsHealth care utilizationHealth care systemPatient's residential addressCross-sectional analysisGeneralized logistic regressionCare utilizationHealth systemResidential mobilitySubstance use disordersCare systemPatient's residenceLogistic regressionVeteransMultinomial outcomesHealthOddsDesign of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States
Mccall T, Levi A, Peng M, Zhou K, Swaminath M, Harikrishnan V, Workman T, Fooladi H, Saunders M, Foumakoye M, Campbell Britton M, Teng S, Zeng-Treitler Q, Yin Y, Wang E, Puglisi L, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States. 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS) 2024 DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2023.443.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDesign of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States
Mccall T, Levi A, Peng M, Zhou K, Swaminath M, Harikrishnan V, Workman T, Fooladi H, Saunders M, Foumakoye M, Britton M, Teng S, Zeng-Treitler Q, Yin Y, Wang E, Puglisi L, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States. Proceedings Of The Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS) 2024, 2024: 3676-3685. PMID: 41496903, PMCID: PMC12766984, DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2024.443.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Personal Health Libraries for People Returning From Incarceration: Protocol for a Qualitative Study
Foumakoye M, Britton M, Ansari E, Saunders M, McCall T, Wang E, Puglisi L, Workman T, Zeng-Treitler Q, Ying Y, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Personal Health Libraries for People Returning From Incarceration: Protocol for a Qualitative Study. JMIR Research Protocols 2023, 12: e44748. PMID: 37133907, PMCID: PMC10193212, DOI: 10.2196/44748.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHealth information technologyPersonal Health LibraryInformation technologyMobile appsINTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIERTechnology resourcesMultiple providersCarceral facilitiesCommunity settingsComplex systemsHealth LibraryHealth care clinicsThematic outputsHealth informationAppsTechnologyCare clinicsJustice-involved individualsNetwork clinicsNetworkingMental healthInformationSocioeconomic statusCommunity livingProvidersEnhanced Identification of Hispanic Ethnicity Using Clinical Data
Ochoa-Allemant P, Tate J, Williams E, Gordon K, Marconi V, Bensley K, Rentsch C, Wang K, Taddei T, Justice A, Cohorts F. Enhanced Identification of Hispanic Ethnicity Using Clinical Data. Medical Care 2023, 61: 200-205. PMID: 36893404, PMCID: PMC10114212, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001824.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBurden of diseaseHispanic patientsCountry of birthClinical dataHispanic ethnicityNon-Hispanic white patientsSex-adjusted prevalenceChronic liver diseaseHuman immunodeficiency virusDemographic characteristicsElectronic health record dataHealth careHealth record dataPrevalence of conditionsUS health care systemMedicare administrative dataHealth care systemWhite patientsLiver diseaseImmunodeficiency virusSelf-reported ethnicityHigh prevalenceGastric cancerHepatocellular carcinomaVeteran population
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Overview
Karen Wang, MD, is an internal medicine specialist who focuses on general medical care and the intersection of health equity and informatics. She works on enhancing health-related information and data collection to benefit marginalized communities. She uses a participatory approach, engaging these communities and gathering health data to address social factors such as race, ethnicity, and residential location that impact health outcomes. Her aim is to improve health data quality and dissemination, making data more accessible and useful to these communities.
As an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Wang conducts research to improve data justice and equity.
Dr. Wang received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her residency at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed by fellowships with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program and the Yale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
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- March 24, 2025
Data Scientists Discuss Digital Health Equity at Yale Conference
- 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)
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