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Betty Yang, M.D.

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Emergency Medicine

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  • Biography

    Betty Yang, MD, MS, is an EMS & emergency physician and prehospital researcher. She cares for patients at the Clements University Hospital and Parkland Memorial Hospital. She serves as associate medical director of the UTSW/Parkland BioTel EMS System for Sunnyvale. She strives to improve the care of critically ill and injured patients in the prehospital and emergency settings.

    Prior to joining UT Southwestern faculty, she completed fellowships in EMS & research at the University of Washington in 2022. As an EMS fellow, she worked closely with Seattle Fire Medic One, King County Public Health EMS, and Paramedic Student Training. She gained hands-on prehospital experience as a flight physician with Airlift Northwest. She was involved in quality improvement, education, pandemic response, and implementation of novel therapies. Her enthusiasm for science and innovation was sparked as an undergraduate engineering student at MIT and has grown since. She obtained formal training in research methodology and health services through a master’s degree in Health Systems and Population Health with a concentration in Clinical and Translational Research at the UW School of Public Health.

    Dr. Yang studies prehospital resuscitation with a particular interest in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, ventilation, and prehospital whole blood transfusion. She has previously received funding from the Medic One Foundation to study prehospital ventilation and the AHA Strategically Focused Research Network as a postdoctoral fellow to train as a resuscitation scientist. She is a current UT Southwestern Dean's Scholar in Clinical Research.

  • Education
    Medical School
    UT Health Science Center McGovern Medical School (2015)
    Internship
    Baylor College of Medicine (2016), Internal Medicine
    Residency
    Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (2019), Emergency Medicine
    Fellowship
    University of Washington (2020), Emergency Medical Services
    Other Post Graduate Training
    University of Washington (2022)
    Graduate School
    University of Washington (2022), Public Health
    Fellowship
    University of Washington (2022), Research
  • Research Interest
    • Cardiac Arrest
    • Emergency Medical Services
    • Prehospital medicine
    • Resuscitation