About Dr. Yong

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Dr. William H. Yong obtained a Bachelors degree in Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley and a Masters degree in biology (Cellular and Molecular concentration) at San Francisco State University. For the Masters degree, he studied the AIDS retrovirus in the laboratory of Professor Jay Levy at UCSF. He attended medical school at UCLA where he completed his Honors thesis research with Professor Harry Vinters and graduated as a Deans Scholar. He trained in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he worked in the molecular neuro-oncology laboratory of Dr. David Louis. He completed his neuropathology fellowship at UCLA under Professors Harry Vinters and Anthony Verity.

Dr. Yong was the Director of Neuropathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Chief of Neuropathology at UCLA, where he was the Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Translational Resource as well as of the UCLA Neuropathology Fellowship Program. He is currently Vice-Chair, Integration and Strategic Initiatives, Chief of Neuropathology and Director of the Neuropathology Fellowship in the UC Irvine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research interests include Down Syndrome neuropathology, biobanking, diagnostic neuropathology, and clinically applied artificial intelligence. Training and mentoring bright young minds so that they can advance patient care and biomedical research is one of the most rewarding aspects of his work.

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Contact
Email: yongwh@uci.edu
Phone: (714) 456-6141
Address: UCIMC, Bldg. 1, Rm. 3003