Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, United States
Dr. Yao graduated and earned his MD from Inner Mongolia Medical College, China in 1984. He trained in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology and obtained his Ph.D at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in 1993 and then served as attending rheumatologist and Associate Professor of Medicine in PUMC Hospital. Dr. Yao came to America as a visiting scholar in the Division of Rheumatology at Columbia University in 1997. He then served as a research associate and performed research on gene therapy for arthritis at the University of Pittsburgh. He retrained in American hospitals, including residency training in Capital Health System, New Jersey and rheumatology fellowship training at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Yao joined the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio from 2008 to 2015, where he was inaugural Director of the Clinic for Adult Autoinflammatory Diseases. At the Cleveland Clinic, he identified the disease, Yao syndrome (OMIM617321), formerly designated as NOD2-associated autoinflammatory disease. Dr. Yao joined the Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University in August 2015. He is Professor, Department of Medicine and serves as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology. He has continued providing specialized care for patients with autoinflammatory disease. He recently led proposing and defining a new concept "Genetically Transitional Disease" in genomic medicine.
1146: Gene X Environment Paradigm: Exemplified by Selected Cases of Autoinflammatory Diseases
Monday, November 13, 2023
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
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