Shi-yi Wang MD, PhD

Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, a faculty member of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, and a faculty member of the Public Health Modeling Concentration, at Yale School of Public Health. His primary interests focus on outcomes research and decision science. He is interested in combining systematic literature reviews, secondary data analyses, and simulation modeling to examine issues that are critical to clinicians' and policymakers’ decision-making. He has been working on several breast cancer projects, including an evaluation of preoperative breast MRI, the development of an individualized decision aid to help radiotherapy decision-making and assessment of sentinel lymph node biopsy for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ. He is also evaluating end-of-life care quality. He has served as the primary investigator or co-investigator in several projects (funded by Yale Cancer Center, AHRQ, NCI, ACS, and PCORI).