Westlake announced the appointment of Shen Yang on July 21, Guangming Daily reported. She joins the Hangzhou university’s school of medicine as a teaching-track professor after more than 16 years of clinical practice in the U.S.
Her most recent post was at Huntington Health in Pasadena, California, where she is listed in medical directories as Yang Shen.
She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, according to Guangming Daily.
Los Angeles Magazine named her among its Top Doctors in endocrinology for several consecutive years, in a countywide peer survey of physicians.
Shen graduated from Fudan University’s sociology department in Shanghai in 1997, drawn to community work theory. She then moved to the U.S., earning master’s degrees in sociology and biostatistics at the State University of New York at Albany.
A friend suffered cardiac arrest during a basketball game and recovered after emergency treatment and intensive care. The experience turned her toward medicine, she said in an interview published on Westlake’s website.
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Endocrinologist Shen Yang. Photo courtesy of Westlake University |
She prepared for medical school in her spare time while working, and was admitted to the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine after more than three years.
She received her medical degree in 2010 and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She then trained in endocrinology at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Guangming Daily reported.
In California she practiced at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and at Huntington Health, treating Type 2 diabetes in adults and children. Her clinical work also covered thyroid and parathyroid ultrasound imaging and cranial ultrasound evaluation.
Westlake University is a private research institution established in Hangzhou in 2018. It launched its school of medicine in November 2023 to train what it calls physician-scientists, clinicians carrying research training alongside clinical practice.
The school hired its first overseas teaching-track professor in June 2024, when Zhang Xiaoming joined from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He had directed the anatomy teaching center there, and now oversees the establishment and teaching operations of Westlake’s Basic Medical Teaching Center.
Westlake has not said where Shen will see patients. Its directly affiliated teaching hospital is Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, which it took on in November 2023 under an agreement with the Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission.