Betty Yang, MD

Betty Yang, MD, is an emergency physician at Harborview Medical Center and a prehospital medical director in training at the University of Washington. As an EMS fellow, she works closely with Seattle Fire Medic One, King County Public Health EMS, and Paramedic Student Training. She has been involved in quality improvement and implementation of novel therapies, and she hopes to optimize EMS systems, through education, guideline enhancement, and EMS research.

Dr. Yang studies prehospital resuscitation of the critically ill and injured with a focus on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. She receives funding from the Medic One Foundation to study ventilation of patients who suffer cardiac arrest. She was selected as the UW American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network postdoctoral fellow; she receives funding to train as a resuscitation scientist and will complete the two-year fellowship in 2022.