Karen Wang, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)Cards
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Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Biography
Dr. Wang is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine and core faculty at the Equity Research and Innovation Center and Yale Center for Medical Informatics. Her work is at the intersection of health equity, informatics, and data justice with a focus in optimizing health and health-related information, data, and technology for communities that have been marginalized. Her research goal is to improve the health of communities that have been marginalized by engaging them in the collection and use of health data and improving the quality of social and structural determinants of health data, such as race, ethnicity, and residential address.
She leverages a participatory approach to center communities in the design, collection, (re-) use of their health data; understand communities' information and technology needs, improve information resources, and accelerate the dissemination of useful data back to communities, from electronic health record data to research study data.
Last Updated on May 11, 2025.
Appointments
General Internal Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryBiomedical Informatics & Data Science
Assistant ProfessorSecondaryBiostatistics
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Yale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System (2016)
- MHS
- Yale School of Medicine (2012)
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program (2012)
- Resident
- Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2007)
- MD
- Baylor College of Medicine (2004)
Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Latest Certification Date
- 2017
- Original Certification Date
- 2007
Research
Publications
2025
Patient perspectives on safety and privacy in sexual orientation and gender identity data collection
Lewis J, Alpert A, Galusha D, Faria A, Hirschman A, Wolfe H, Hart L, Nunez-Smith M, Wang K. Patient perspectives on safety and privacy in sexual orientation and gender identity data collection. JNCI Monographs 2025, 2025: 170-176. PMID: 40671545, PMCID: PMC12268159, DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgaf015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGender identity data collectionIdentity data collectionHealth careHealth systemHealth-care qualityHealth-care professionalsFront desk staffGender minoritiesData collectionGender minority communitiesPatient safetyPatient perspectiveSexual orientationPatient concernsGender identity questionMinority participantsHealthCareMinority communitiesEpidemiological dataGender identityHospitalized patientsParticipantsIdentical questionsGenderSocial determinants of health extraction from clinical notes across institutions using large language models
Keloth V, Selek S, Chen Q, Gilman C, Fu S, Dang Y, Chen X, Hu X, Zhou Y, He H, Fan J, Wang K, Brandt C, Tao C, Liu H, Xu H. Social determinants of health extraction from clinical notes across institutions using large language models. Npj Digital Medicine 2025, 8: 287. PMID: 40379919, PMCID: PMC12084648, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-01645-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharacterizing Emergency Department Care for Patients With Histories of Incarceration
Huang T, Socrates V, Ovchinnikova P, Faustino I, Kumar A, Safranek C, Chi L, Wang E, Puglisi L, Wong A, Wang K, Taylor R. Characterizing Emergency Department Care for Patients With Histories of Incarceration. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2025, 6: 100022. PMID: 40012663, PMCID: PMC11852703, DOI: 10.1016/j.acepjo.2024.100022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCare processesHistory of incarcerationRestraint useEmergency departmentHealth care team membersMeasuring care processesCompare socio-demographic characteristicsCare team membersHealth care disparitiesEmergency department careHealth care systemSocio-demographic characteristicsUnique patient encountersMultivariate logistic regressionCare disparitiesHealth behaviorsED settingCare systemPatient encountersSubstance use historyMedical adviceLogistic regressionDemographic characteristicsTeam membersCare
2024
Community Comfort with Automatic Sharing of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Between Healthcare Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)
Brazer N, Tessier-Sherman B, Galusha D, Suttiratana S, Liu C, Kim K, Abraham M, Nunez-Smith M, Wang K. Community Comfort with Automatic Sharing of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Between Healthcare Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint). Interactive Journal Of Medical Research 2024 DOI: 10.2196/67288.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLeveraging Electronic Health Records to Assess Residential Mobility Among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
Wang K, Hendrickson Z, Miller M, Abel E, Skanderson M, Erdos J, Womack J, Brandt C, Desai M, Han L. Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Assess Residential Mobility Among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration. Medical Care 2024, 62: 458-463. PMID: 38848139, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000002017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVeterans Health AdministrationElectronic health recordsResidential addressesHealth recordsHealth AdministrationLeveraging electronic health recordsInfluence health care utilizationVeterans Health Administration dataAssociations of sociodemographicsHealth care utilizationHealth care systemPatient's residential addressCross-sectional analysisGeneralized logistic regressionCare utilizationHealth systemResidential mobilitySubstance use disordersCare systemPatient's residenceLogistic regressionVeteransMultinomial outcomesHealthOddsDesign of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States
Mccall T, Levi A, Peng M, Zhou K, Swaminath M, Harikrishnan V, Workman T, Fooladi H, Saunders M, Foumakoye M, Campbell Britton M, Teng S, Zeng-Treitler Q, Yin Y, Wang E, Puglisi L, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States. 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS) 2024 DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2023.443.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDesign of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States
Mccall T, Levi A, Peng M, Zhou K, Swaminath M, Harikrishnan V, Workman T, Fooladi H, Saunders M, Foumakoye M, Campbell Britton M, Teng S, Zeng-Treitler Q, Yin Y, Wang E, Puglisi L, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States. 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS) 2024 DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2024.443.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Personal Health Libraries for People Returning From Incarceration: Protocol for a Qualitative Study
Foumakoye M, Britton M, Ansari E, Saunders M, McCall T, Wang E, Puglisi L, Workman T, Zeng-Treitler Q, Ying Y, Shavit S, Brandt C, Wang K. Personal Health Libraries for People Returning From Incarceration: Protocol for a Qualitative Study. JMIR Research Protocols 2023, 12: e44748. PMID: 37133907, PMCID: PMC10193212, DOI: 10.2196/44748.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHealth information technologyPersonal Health LibraryInformation technologyMobile appsINTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIERTechnology resourcesMultiple providersCarceral facilitiesCommunity settingsComplex systemsHealth LibraryHealth care clinicsThematic outputsHealth informationAppsTechnologyCare clinicsJustice-involved individualsNetwork clinicsNetworkingMental healthInformationSocioeconomic statusCommunity livingProvidersEnhanced Identification of Hispanic Ethnicity Using Clinical Data
Ochoa-Allemant P, Tate J, Williams E, Gordon K, Marconi V, Bensley K, Rentsch C, Wang K, Taddei T, Justice A, Cohorts F. Enhanced Identification of Hispanic Ethnicity Using Clinical Data. Medical Care 2023, 61: 200-205. PMID: 36893404, PMCID: PMC10114212, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001824.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBurden of diseaseHispanic patientsCountry of birthClinical dataHispanic ethnicityNon-Hispanic white patientsSex-adjusted prevalenceChronic liver diseaseHuman immunodeficiency virusDemographic characteristicsElectronic health record dataHealth careHealth record dataPrevalence of conditionsUS health care systemMedicare administrative dataHealth care systemWhite patientsLiver diseaseImmunodeficiency virusSelf-reported ethnicityHigh prevalenceGastric cancerHepatocellular carcinomaVeteran populationEquity and use of telehealth modalities among people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic
Carson H, Wang K, Paek H, Hoffman P, Arakaki A, Gonzalez-Colaso R, Barakat L, Villanueva M, Womack J. Equity and use of telehealth modalities among people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital Health 2023, 9: 20552076231218840. PMID: 38107977, PMCID: PMC10722925, DOI: 10.1177/20552076231218840.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
Clinical Care
Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Latest Certification Date
- 2017
- Original Certification Date
- 2007
News & Links
News
- March 24, 2025
Data Scientists Discuss Digital Health Equity at Yale Conference
- June 25, 2024
Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
- March 26, 2024
Heckmann and Wong Receive R01 award from National Institute of Mental Health for System Dynamics Modeling to Promote Health Equity in Management of Agitation
- July 13, 2023
Department of Internal Medicine Promotions and Appointments (July 2023)
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