Dr. Yan is a biostatistician with expertise in survival, longitudinal, and hierarchical models, and analysis of population registry databases and electronic health records. She has been collaborating with many clinical investigators in various disease and clinical specialties in study design, analytical approach, statistical analysis, and grant applications and manuscripts. In particular, she has research interests in the utilization and development of biostatistical and epidemiologic methods and framework to help elucidate relationships among racial, socioeconomic, and biological factors in health outcomes. She has served as the principal investigator for two NIH investigator-initiated R01s and other government research grants to examine outcomes and disparities in chronic kidney disease.