Education
 
2000: BA, University of California, Berkeley, High Honors
2004: MD, University of California, Los Angeles, AOA Honors
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1997, 1998: UC Berkeley Chemistry Department, Outstanding GSI Teaching Award
1997-1998: CAA Emerging Leadership Michael J. Koll Scholarship
1998-1999: CAA Emerging Leadership McLaughlin-Willits Scholarship
1999: Phi Beta Kappa
1999: UC Berkeley Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Instructor
2000: UC Berkeley Social Welfare Scholastic Award
2001: American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Golden Apple Award
2003: American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Golden Apple Award
2003: Alpha Omega Alpha
2004: Annual Lasky Memorial Research Award of the UCLA School of Medicine
2004: UCLA School of Medicine Dean's Scholar Outstanding Thesis Award
2005: American Medical Student Association Distinguished Mentor Award
2007: Dandy Fellowship Award, Congress of Neurological Surgeons
 
Contact
 
Isaac Yang MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
E-mail: Isaac.Yang@ucsf.edu
 
Affiliations
 
American Association for Cancer Research
American Medical Association
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Yang I, Barbaro NM. Advances in the radiosurgical treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy Curr 2007;7(2):31-5.
 
Waldron J, Yang I, Murray JC, Cachola KE, Parsa AT. Akt/PKB Activation Facilitates Immune Escape in Glioma Patients: 908. Neurosurgery 2006;59(2):490.
 
Boudreau CR, Yang I, Liau LM. Gliomas: advances in molecular analysis and characterization [Review]. Surg Neurol 2005;64(4):286-94; discussion 294.
 
Bergsneider M, Yang I, Hu X, McArthur DL, Cook SW, Boscardin WJ. Relationship between valve opening pressure, body position, and intracranial pressure in normal pressure hydrocephalus: paradigm for selection of programmable valve pressure setting. Neurosurgery 2004;55(4):851-8; discussion 858-9.
 
Yang I, Kremen TJ, Giovannone AJ, Paik E, Odesa SK, Prins RM, Liau LM. Modulation of major histocompatibility complex Class I molecules and major histocompatibility complex-bound immunogenic peptides induced by interferon-alpha and interferon-gamma treatment of human glioblastoma multiforme. J Neurosurg 2004;100(2):310-9.
 
Thakur A, Yang I, Lin A, Buchmiller-Crair T, Fonkalsrud EW. Management of ovarian cysts in women undergoing restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis. Am Surg 2003;69(4):339-42.
 
Thakur A, Yang I, Lee MY, Goel A, Ashok A, Fonkalsrud EW. Increasing social capital via local networks: analysis in the context of a surgical practice. Am Surg 2002;68(9):776-9.
 
Liau LM, Yang I. Microarrays and the genetic analysis of brain tumors [Review]. Curr Genomics 2002;3(1):33-41.
 
Berg J, Chandrasoma S, Yang I, Lynch JB, Walling A. Learning about bioterorism and chemical warfare - Medical students explore key threats. West J Med 2002;176(1):58-9.