Wei (Peter) Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
629 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
629 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: 215-573-7326
Fax: 215-573-4865
Fax: 215-573-4865
Email:
weiyang@mail.med.upenn.edu
weiyang@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
BS (Genetics)
Peking University, Beijing, China, 2001.
Ph.D. (Biostatistics)
State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, Albany, NY, 2007.
Permanent linkBS (Genetics)
Peking University, Beijing, China, 2001.
Ph.D. (Biostatistics)
State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, Albany, NY, 2007.
Selected Publications
Kerner, C., Carey, K., Mills, A. M., Yang, W., Synnestvedt, M. B., Hilton, S., Weiner, M. G., Lewis, J. D.: Use of abdominopelvic computed tomography in emergency departments and rates of urgent diagnoses in Crohn's disease. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 10(1): 52-7, 2012.Betancourt, L. M., Brodsky, N. L., Brown, C. A., McKenna, K. A., Giannetta, J. M., Yang, W., Romer, D., Hurt, H.: Is Executive Cognitive Function Associated with Youth Gambling? J Gambl Stud 2011.
Ricardo, A. C., Lash, J. P., Fischer, M. J., Lora, C. M., Budoff, M., Keane, M. G., Kusek, J. W., Martinez, M., Nessel, L., Stamos, T., Ojo, A., Rahman, M., Soliman, E. Z., Yang, W., Feldman, H. I., Go, A. S., Cric,, Hcric Investigators: Cardiovascular disease among hispanics and non-hispanics in the chronic renal insufficiency cohort (CRIC) study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 6(9): 2121-31, 2011.
Peace, K., Maloney-Wilensky, E., Frangos, S., Hujcs, M., Levine, J., Kofke, W. A., Yang, W., Le Roux, P. D.: Portable head CT scan and its effect on intracranial pressure, cerebral perfusion pressure, and brain oxygen. J Neurosurg 114(5): 1479-84, 2011.
Myers, J. S., Gojraty, S., Yang, W., Linsky, A., Airan-Javia, S., Polomano, R. C.: A randomized-controlled trial of computerized alerts to reduce unapproved medication abbreviation use. J Am Med Inform Assoc 18(1): 17-23, 2011.
Joffe, M. M., Yang, W., Feldman, H.: G-Estimation and Artificial Censoring: Problems, Challenges, and Applications. Biometrics 2011.
Isakova, T., Xie, H., Yang, W., Xie, D., Anderson, A. H., Scialla, J., Wahl, P., Gutierrez, O. M., Steigerwalt, S., He, J., Schwartz, S., Lo, J., Ojo, A., Sondheimer, J., Hsu, C. Y., Lash, J., Leonard, M., Kusek, J. W., Feldman, H. I., Wolf, M., Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study, Group: Fibroblast growth factor 23 and risks of mortality and end-stage renal disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. JAMA 305(23): 2432-9, 2011.
Hennessy, S., Leonard, C. E., Localio, A. R., Cohen, A., Yang, W., Cheung, L., Strom, B. L., Herlim, M., Feldman, H. I.: Prescriber adherence to pharmacokinetic monitoring service recommendations for aminoglycoside dosing and the risk of acute kidney injury. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther 49(9): 536-44, 2011.
Budoff, M. J., Rader, D. J., Reilly, M. P., Mohler, E. R., 3rd, Lash, J., Yang, W., Rosen, L., Glenn, M., Teal, V., Feldman, H. I., Cric Study Investigators: Relationship of estimated GFR and coronary artery calcification in the CRIC (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) Study. Am J Kidney Dis 58(4): 519-26, 2011.
Betancourt, L. M., Yang, W., Brodsky, N. L., Gallagher, P. R., Malmud, E. K., Giannetta, J. M., Farah, M. J., Hurt, H.: Adolescents with and without gestational cocaine exposure: Longitudinal analysis of inhibitory control, memory and receptive language. Neurotoxicol Teratol 33(1): 36-46, 2011.