Dr. Yeh’s educational and professional journey has taught him about medicine’s duality, where basic healthcare access and delivery still elude millions in a nation endowed with immense economic, intellectual, and technological capital. Medically trained at UT Health San Antonio, Dr. Yeh found himself in a moral tug-of-war: championing patient-centered care while being complacent in serving a healthcare system that fails the vulnerable. That tension instigated Dr. Yeh to also pursue a doctorate in public health, culminating in research experiences on NIH-funded projects on border and minority communities, while also engaging in decision science modeling to guide clinical decision-making in cancer prevention and chronic disease management. He has published two dozen peer-review articles to date.
At his core, Dr. Yeh feels most at home as an educator, with experience teaching Rice undergraduate, UTHealth graduate public health, and UTRGV physician assistant and medical students. He finds purpose in teaching, mentoring, and learning from students, just as much as he does teaching them. At EnMed, Dr. Yeh is enthusiastic about training EnMed “physicianeers” who use critical inquiry to challenge assumptions and engineer solutions to tackle our broken healthcare system. With the advent of disruptive innovation and technology in healthcare, how do we determine the best treatment approach?
Dr. Yeh synergizes his medical and public health experience in epidemiology, decision science, health economics, behavioral sciences, and preventive medicine to help EnMed students critically appraise evidence and understand the systems-level ramifications of their clinical decision-making and engineering innovation projects. Dr. Yeh’s goal is to help physicianeers master the “language” of clinical medicine through collaborative teaching, while harnessing their disruptive, evidence-based spirit to challenge the complacent status-quo in medicine. At EnMed, there lies a powerful opportunity to connect medicine and public health to clinical reasoning and engineering innovation.