Network Director

Dr. David Yang is a Clinical Instructor at Yale’s Department of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Medical Director of EMS Research. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering and BSAS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University.

Nationally, Dr. Yang has served as Mental Health Co-Chair for the Asian American Pacific Medical Students Association (APAMSA) and on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee.

Dr. Yang’s current research focuses on three domains. First, he examines the experiences of healthcare workers in the clinical setting with a particular focus on Asian Americans. Second, he focuses on improving bystander intervention in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Third, he focusing on improving health outcomes in the prehospital environment.

Dr. Frank Qian, MD, MPH is a current Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow at Boston Medical Center and Research Fellow in the NIH-funded T32 Multidisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology with the Framingham Heart Study. He studied Biological Sciences and Statistics at University of Chicago and went on to obtain his MD degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and received an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously served as the 2018 Co-Director for the National Hepatitis B/C Conference and as the Director of Hepatitis B Screening for the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine APAMSA chapter. He is passionate about cardiovascular disease prevention, particularly among Asian populations. His recent research seeks to use multi-omics approaches to identify and explore precision cardiometabolic phenotypes and disease pathways. He continues to enjoy teaching and mentoring medical students, participating as a speaker in the 2024 and 2025 EKG Workshop and in the Residency Application Advising Program.

Ashley Tam completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and medical degree at Oregon Health & Science University. She served on the board of her local APAMSA chapter and started her service on APAMSA’s national board as the National Conference Communications Director for the 2023 National Conference hosted at OHSU. She went on to also hold the roles of Social Media Director and Communications Vice President for National APAMSA. She is currently a Pathology resident at Stanford Health Care. When not at the hospital, Ashley likes to explore new restaurants on her never-ending list, play gacha games, and spend time with her husband and shiba inu.