Yiwey Shieh MD

Yiwey Shieh, MD MAS is a Primary Care Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Shieh is a general internist and clinical epidemiologist interested in improving the delivery of breast cancer screening and prevention through the use of risk stratification tools. His current work uses clinical risk factors, breast density, and genetic variants to refine individual risk assessment, especially as it pertains to disease biology. As a clinician-investigator, he is particularly interested in how such tools can be leveraged to enhance clinical decision-making.

Dr. Shieh received his MD degree from UCSF and completed internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MAS in Clinical Research through the UCSF Training in Clinical Research program. He will join the faculty of the UCSF Division of General Medicine as an Assistant Professor in July 2017.