Gee Yang PhD, RN

Dr. Gee Su Yang's research focus is cancer prevention and survivorship. Her overall program of research is focused on identifying biobehavioral mechanisms underlying the development and persistence of psychoneurological symptoms (e.g., pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, depression, and anxiety) and developing precision-based approaches to symptom management in cancer survivors to improve their quality of life and functioning. Currently, she is passionate about characterizing phenotypes and investigating novel biological processes of aromatase inhibitor-associated musculoskeletal symptoms and immunotherapy-associated adverse symptoms.

Yang is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. She received her BSN and MSN from Seoul National University in South Korea and her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Maryland. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Florida College of Nursing through an NIH/NINR F32 individual postdoctoral fellowship. Her preclinical and clinical cancer research projects were and/or are being supported by the NIH/NINR training award, Oncology Nursing Foundation, Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award, American Nurses Foundation/Midwest Nursing Research Society, American Society for Pain Management Nursing, Healthy Americas Foundation, and Global Korean Nursing Foundation.