Resident Physician
Tulane University School of Medicine
Dr. Lanbo Yang, MD (he/him) is a second-year resident physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology and researcher at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA, USA. He has published 12 peer-reviewed publications (including 7 as first author) in various journals including AJOG Global Reports and BJOG. He has received grants from the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Program, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the National Institutes of Health. He has previously conducted public health research or collaborated with NGOs in the USA, Haiti, China, Morocco, Jordan and Brazil, where he spent a year in Porto Alegre, a city in south Brazil at the epicenter of a local HIV epidemic creating a regional database of 1,300 pregnant women living with HIV in order to improve maternal and fetal outcomes. His research interests include infectious diseases in pregnancy, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and global maternal health. He received his B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Vassar College and M.D. from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he received the Al Senft Prize for his commitment to global health. He speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
