Xiaoming Yang, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

• Professor
• Director, Image-Guided Bio-Molecular Interventions Research

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Biography

Dr. Yang is a UW professor and director of image-guided bio-molecular interventions research in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also an attending physician of interventional radiology at UW Medical Center, and holds an appointment as a senior lecturer of radiology at Kuopio University in Finland and as an attending physician of radiology qualified in European community countries.
 
Dr. Yang received his M.D. in 1983 from Suzhou University School of Medicine, China. He then received a master’s degree of medical science in 1986 from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical University in Beijing, followed by a Ph.D. of medical science in 1991 from Kuopio University, Finland.
 
Dr. Yang completed his residencies in radiology at Peking Union Hospital in Beijing and Kuopio University Hospital in Finland, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington. In 2002, Dr. Yang was appointed associate professor and co-director of the Center for Image-Guided Interventions at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
 
Because of his special background of both a physician and a scientist, Dr. Yang is functioning as a unique “bridge” linking bench research and clinical practice. Dr. Yang has received over $12,000,000 in funding from US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding agencies. As one of the pioneers, Dr. Yang has created several new concepts and technologies on medical imaging and interventional radiology in the world, including developments of intraluminal MR imaging and interventions, MRI-tracking of stem cells in vascular diseases, imaging of vascular gene therapy, and interventional molecular imaging.

Awards and Honors

• Chinese Society of Radiology 2017 Gold Medal — Honorary Member, October 15, 2017
• Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology 2017 Outstanding Physician – Scientist Award, October 15, 2017

Recent Publications (via Semantic Scholar)

Microbial-based cancer therapy-bugs as drugs: History & the essential role of medical imaging.
Hongxiu Ji, Xiaoming Yang - Published 2021 - CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Periprocedural risk factors for incomplete radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases from colorectal cancer: a single-center retrospective analysis.
Hongjie Fan, Xiaoyan Wang, Jiali Qu, et al. - Published 2021 - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYPERTHERMIA : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR HYPERTHERMIC ONCOLOGY, NORTH AMERICAN HYPERTHERMIA GROUP

Interventional optical imaging permits instant visualization of pathological zones of ablated tumor periphery and residual tumor detection.
Xuefeng Kan, Guanhui Zhou, Feng Zhang, et al. - Published 2021 - CANCER RESEARCH

Consensus of Minimally Invasive and Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma – 2020 Guangzhou Recommendations
Qifeng Chen, Wang Li, Simon Chun-ho Yu, et al. - Published 2021 - FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY

Image-Guided Peri-Tumoral Radiofrequency Hyperthermia-Enhanced Direct Chemo-Destruction of Hepatic Tumor Margins
Minjiang Chen, Feng Zhang, Jingjing Song, et al. - Published 2021 - FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY

Comparison of Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Subcapsular and Non-Subcapsular Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases
Hongjie Fan, Xiaoyan Wang, Jiali Qu, et al. - Published 2021 - FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY

Interventional real-time optical imaging guidance for complete tumor ablation
Xuefeng Kan, Feng Zhang, Guanhui Zhou, et al. - Published 2021 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Image-Guided Radiofrequency Hyperthermia (RFH)-Enhanced Direct Chemotherapy of Hepatic Tumors: The Underlying Biomolecular Mechanisms
Kun Qian, Minjiang Chen, F. Zhang, et al. - Published 2020 - FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY

Image-guided locoregional non-intravascular interventional treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma: Current status
Kun Qian, Feng Zhang, S. Allison, et al. - Published 2020

3:09 PM Abstract No. 128 Development of real-time optical image-assessed thermal ablation of hepatic tumor
Xuefeng Kan, Guo-feng Zhou, C. Zheng, et al. - Published 2020