Daniel Yang, M.D.

Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care

Radiation Oncology
Genitourinary Cancer
Radiation Therapy for Cancer

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Biography

Daniel Yang, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in treating patients with genitourinary cancer.

Dr. Yang earned his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine. He was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Leadership Innovation Fellow at Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology. He completed his residency in radiation oncology at Yale New Haven Hospital, where he served as Chief Resident. His research during residency, which was focused on machine learning applications to advance clinical oncology data quality, earned him an American Society of Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award.

He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022.

Dr. Yang is an editor for the journals JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics and Frontiers in Oncology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and the Radiological Society of North America.

Dr. Yang’s clinical and research interests include genitourinary cancers, machine learning applications for clinical oncology, and informatics tools to improve patient care. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles related to his areas of research and contributed to the fifth edition of Textbook of Uncommon Cancer.

Education & Training

Chief Resident - Yale New Haven Hospital (2021-2022), Radiation Oncology
Residency - Yale New Haven Hospital (2018-2022), Radiation Oncology
Internship - California Pacific Medical Center (2017-2018), Internal Medicine
Medical School - Yale School of Medicine (2012-2017)

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Society for Radiation Oncology
Radiological Society of North America

Honors & Awards

Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care 2024
Young Investigator Award 2021, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Farr Scholar 2017, Yale School of Medicine
Scholar-in-Training Award 2016, American Association for Cancer Research
James L. and Evelyn Ribbs Hutchinson Scholarship 2016
Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship 2015
Inaugural Leadership Innovation Fellowship 2015, Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology
Oncology Trainee Travel Award 2014, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Award for Academic Excellence and Achievement 2014, American Society for Clinical Pathology
Howard Hughes Summer Medical Fellowship 2013
William and Alice Hinckley Fund Scholarship 2012-2017

Books & Publications

Books
- Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas in Textbook of Uncommon Cancer 5th Ed
  Bush NA, Yang DX, Clarke JL, Haas-Kogan DA (2017), Wiley-Blackwell
Publications
- Performance deterioration of deep learning models after clinical deployment: a case study with auto-segmentation for definitive prostate cancer radiotherapy
  Wang B, Dohopolski M, Bai T, Wu J, Hannan R, Desai N, Garant A, Yang D, Nguyen D, Lin MH, Timmerman R, Wang X, Jiang SB Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2024 Jun 5
- Harnessing stereotactic precision in the fight against primary kidney cancer: time for a randomised trial?
  Yang DX, Hannan R The Lancet Oncology 2024 Mar 25 267-269
- Dose-Volume Predictors of Radiation Pneumonitis After Thoracic Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy
  Sasse A, Oh P, Saeed N, Yang DX, Hayman TJ, Knowlton CA, Peters GW, Campbell A, Laird J, Housri N, Park HS Practical Radiation Oncology 2024 Mar 14 e97-e104
- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for primary renal cell carcinoma
  Yang DX, Kwon YS, Timmerman R, Hannan R Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 2024 Jan 44
- Outlook of AI in medical physics and radiation oncology
  Yang DX, Avesta A, Choi R, Aneja S 2023 Aug 145-164
- Aging a Decade in a Day: Age Cutoff Bias in Adjuvant Therapy Allocation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
  Talcott WJ, Cain DM, Yang D, Mougalian SS, Evans SB International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2023 Jul 116 747-756
- Comparing Detection Schemes for Adversarial Images against Deep Learning Models for Cancer Imaging
  Joel MZ, Avesta A, Yang DX, Zhou JG, Omuro A, Herbst RS, Krumholz HM, Aneja S Cancers 2023 Mar 15
- Factors associated with the use of adjuvant radiation therapy in stage III melanoma
  King AL, Lee V, Yu B, Mirza FN, Zogg CK, Yang DX, Tran T, Leventhal J, An Y Frontiers in Oncology 2023 Feb 13
- Using Adversarial Images to Assess the Robustness of Deep Learning Models Trained on Diagnostic Images in Oncology
  Joel MZ, Umrao S, Chang E, Choi R, Yang DX, Duncan JS, Omuro A, Herbst R, Krumholz HM, Aneja S JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2022 6
- Temporal Trends in Opioid Prescribing Patterns among Oncologists in the Medicare Population
  Jairam V, Yang DX, Pasha S, Soulos PR, Gross CP, Yu JB, Park HS Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2021 Mar 113 274-281
- Prevalence of Missing Data in the National Cancer Database and Association with Overall Survival
  Yang DX, Khera R, Miccio JA, Jairam V, Chang E, Yu JB, Park HS, Krumholz HM, Aneja S JAMA Network Open 2021 Mar 4
- Radiation Dose to the Rectum With Definitive Radiation Therapy and Hydrogel Spacer Versus Postprostatectomy Radiation Therapy
  Yang DX, Verma V, An Y, Yu JB, Sprenkle PC, Leapman MS, Park HS Advances in Radiation Oncology 2020 Nov 5 1225-1231
- Emergency department visits for opioid overdoses among patients with cancer
  Jairam V, Yang DX, Yu JB, Park HS Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2020 Sep 112 938-943
- National Patterns in Prescription Opioid Use and Misuse among Cancer Survivors in the United States
  Jairam V, Yang DX, Verma V, Yu JB, Park HS JAMA Network Open 2020 Aug 3 E2013605
- Geographic-Level Association of Contemporary Changes in Localized and Metastatic Prostate Cancer Incidence in the Era of Decreasing PSA Screening
  Yang DX, Makarov DV, Gross CP, Yu JB Cancer Control 2020 Jan 27
- Impact of Widespread Cervical Cancer Screening
  Yang DX, Soulos PR, Davis B, Gross CP, Yu JB American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials 2018 41 289-294
- Estimating the magnitude of colorectal cancers prevented during the era of screening 1976 to 2009
  Yang DX, Gross CP, Soulos PR, Yu JB Cancer 2014 Sep 120 2893-2901
- Patient-physician interactions and electronic health records [1]
  Yang DX, Kim YA JAMA 2013 Nov 310 1857
- Helping science and drug development to succeed through pharma-academia partnerships: Yale healthcare conference 2013
  Yang DX, Kim YA Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2013 Sep 86 429-432

Research

Genitourinary cancers
Machine learning applications for clinical oncology
Informatics tools to improve patient care

Clinical Focus

Genitourinary Cancer
Radiation Therapy for Cancer