Yan Peng, MD, PhD

Areas of expertise and specialization

Faculty Titles & Positions

• Chair, Pathology Faculty Mentoring Committee UT Southwestern Medical Center 2017 - Present
• Director of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory and Tumor Biomarker Image Analysis Laboratory Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas, Texas 2007 - 2015
• Professor of Pathology UT Southwestern Medical Center 2018 - Present
• facility site director of breast pathology fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center 2018 - Present

Awards

• President 2018 North Texas Society of Pathologists, USA 
• Marquis Who’s Who in America 2016 the 70th Platinum Anniversary Edition 
• Outstanding Alumnus 2020 Beijing Medical University (Peking University Health Science Center) 
• President 2019 International Association of Chinese Pathologists (IACP) 
• President of Faculty Senate 2017 UT Southwestern Medical Center 

Professional Memberships

• • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology  
• • International Academy of Pathology  
• • International Society of Breast Pathology  

Fellowships

• Mayo Clinic Rochester, Physiology    1995
• UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Molecular Nephrology Research    1999
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Magee Womens Hospital, Breast & Gynecologic Pathology    2004
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Cytopathology    2005

Fellowships

• ACGME accredited Breast and Gynecologic Pathology fellowship at UPMC ACGME accredited Cytopathology fellowship at Harvard Medical School/BIDMC

Articles and Publications

• Dr. Peng has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles. She is an editor of a textbook entitled Practical Breast Pathology (Springer) and an author of multiple book chapters of breast pathology textbooks. She serves as an editorial board member for multiple scientific journals including Human Pathology(Elsevier). She is the section editor of Gynecologic Pathology of Human Pathology Reports (Elsevier).

Teaching and speaking

• English, Mandirine

Favorite professional publications

• He L, Wick N, Germans S and Peng Y*. The Role of Breast Cancer Stem Cells in Chemoresistance and Metastasis in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers. 2021, 13(24), 6209; PMID: 34944829

Areas of research

Breast cancer biomarkers

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