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

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

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

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

Identification of tumorigenicity-associated genes in osteosarcoma cell lines based on bioinformatic analysis and experimental validation
Shaojie Jiang, Fei Zhou, Yanhua Zhang, et al. - Published 2020 - JOURNAL OF CANCER

Abstract No. 703 Comparison on efficacies between HSV-TK gene therapy and oncolytic virotherapy for radiofrequency hyperthermia-enhanced treatment of orthotopic hepatic cancer
F. Zhang, S. Gao, Xiaoming Yang - Published 2020

Molecular imaging-monitored radiofrequency hyperthermia-enhanced intratumoral herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase gene therapy for rat orthotopic ovarian cancer
Yaying Li, Shuhui Zhao, F. Zhang, et al. - Published 2020 - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYPERTHERMIA : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR HYPERTHERMIC ONCOLOGY, NORTH AMERICAN HYPERTHERMIA GROUP