and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

[2] Her 2009 dissertation was titled The association of smoking and common variants in estrogen metabolizing genes with endometrial cancer risk.

[1] Elizabeth A. Platz and Montserrat García-Closas served as her doctoral advisors.

[2] In the DCEG office of the director, Yang oversees scientific review, site visits, annual and ad hoc reporting, executive search committees, budget formulation, and division liaison activities to NCI and NIH entities.

[2] She supports the planning of a new prospective multi-center cohort study.