Chun-Ting Yang, PhD, is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pharmacoepidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Yang received her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, and her Master’s degree in Clinical Pharmacy and PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric pharmacoepidemiology in the Division and is a recipient of the Alzheimer’s Association Fellowship Award.
Her current research focuses on optimizing pharmacotherapy in the geriatric population using large-scale electronic healthcare databases. She primarily studies optimal prescribing and deprescribing of psychotropic medications in vulnerable populations, including post-discharge older adults, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and nursing home residents. She is also leveraging her experience to broaden her research portfolio to other potentially inappropriate medications, such as anticholinergic medications in older adults. Her long-term research goal is to develop scalable and methodologically robust approaches to strengthen the validity and precision of comparative effectiveness research in geriatric populations using routinely collected healthcare data.
