Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed) welcomes Dr. Paul Gerardo Yeh as an assistant teaching professor. With a broad teaching background, from Rice University and among other medical and public health programs across Texas, Yeh brings expertise deep in medicine, education, and research.
His teaching background includes undergraduate courses at Rice, public health instruction at UTHealth, and teaching physician assistant and medical students at UT Rio Grande Valley, where he was named Most Valuable Professor for his dedication to student success. His multidisciplinary expertise aligns with EnMed’s mission to integrate medicine and engineering in transformative ways.
Yeh’s academic contributions include peer-reviewed publications in preventive medicine, health economics, and decision science, book chapters on sleep medicine, and National Cancer Institute –funded research in cancer prevention. At EnMed, he aims to challenge students to think independently and critically about patient care and healthcare system challenges.
When not teaching, Yeh channels his creativity through music, playing the ukulele, banjo, and double bass for his children, his “captive audience.” A self-proclaimed foodie, he’s exploring Houston’s diverse cuisine, with current favorites including Peruvian, Italian, Japanese, Thai, and Mexican. He also enjoys swimming, biking, and playfully navigating the millennial, Gen Z divide.
Yeh lives by a quote from Mother Teresa:
|“You will teach them to fly, but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream, but they will not dream your dream. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. Nevertheless, in every flight, in every life, in every dream the print of the way you taught them will remain.”
This perspective guides his approach to teaching. “I’m not trying to make students think like or be like me,” he said. “One of me is enough for this world.” Instead, he hopes to foster curiosity, critical thinking, and the ability to challenge norms and disrupt the status quo, all qualities essential to EnMed’s mission of educating future physicianeers.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Yeh to the team.
