Dr. Yang came to the US from his native Taiwan in 2009 for his graduate study in Johns Hopkins University. He received his MPH in 2010, and subsequently stayed on for research projects in HIV and TB. During those years, he was involved in multiple international NIH-funded grants and published in nutrition, inflammation, and clinical outcomes related to HIV. He also authored a two-article systemic review on gender and TB care cascade commissioned by the WHO. He received his internal medicine training in a Yale-affiliated program in Bridgeport, CT, and joined the faculty after he graduated in 2016. Through clinical work, he became interested in the syndemic of substance use and infectious diseases. He left general medicine in 2020 to pursue infectious diseases fellowship training in University of Washington, which he completed in 2022. He is currently an addiction medicine fellow in Oregon Health & Science University. He is passionate about integrating ID and substance use care, medical education, and program implementation.