
Betty Yang, M.D.
Assistant Professor
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 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. As part of formal research training, she obtained 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.
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
- Graduate School
- University of Washington (2022), Public Health
- Fellowship
- University of Washington (2022), Research
Research Interest
- Cardiac Arrest
- Emergency Medical Services
- Prehospital medicine
- Resuscitation