Weisi Yan
Assistant Professor
Oncologic Sciences
Mitchell Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Weisi Yan joined MCI in 2016 after holding faculty appointments at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York Hospital Queens. He also served as assistant professor of clinical radiology at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Yan earned his medical degree from China Medical University and a Ph.D. from Cornell, where he trained in pharmacology. He completed his residency at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and NYP/Cornell Medical Center, where he served as chief resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He rotated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center during his residency training. Dr. Yan’s specialties are head and neck cancers, lung cancer, lymphoma and GI cancers. He has extensive training in stereotactic radiation therapy and uses this experience to direct MCI’s CyberKnife program.
Research Interest
Head and neck cancers, lung cancer, lymphoma and GI cancers
Publications
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Patel PS, Yan W, Trichter S, Sabbas A, Rosenblatt R, Drotman MB, Swistel A, Clifford Chao KS, Nori D, Hayes MK. Seroma is an expected consequence and not a complication of MammoSite brachytherapy. The breast journal. 2011 Sep 1;17(5):498-502.
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McGuirk J, Hao G, Hou W, Abhyankar S, Williams C, Yan W, Yuan J, Guan X, Belt R, Dejarnette S, Wieman J. Serum proteomic profiling and haptoglobin polymorphisms in patients with GVHD after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Journal of hematology & oncology. 2009 Apr 20;2(1):17.
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Jason CY, Yan W, Christos PJ, Nori D, Ravi A. Equivalent survival with mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery plus radiation in young women aged< 40 years with early-stage breast cancer: a national registry-based stage-by-stage comparison. Clinical breast cancer. 2015 Oct 31;15(5):390-7.
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Hirsh AZ, Yan W, Wei L, Wernicke AG, Parashar B. Unresectable retiform hemangioendothelioma treated with external beam radiation therapy and chemotherapy: a case report and review of the literature. Sarcoma. 2010 Sep 26;2010.
