A world leader in applying biophotonics to medical procedures, Dr. Yang is a Surgeon-Scientist recruited to the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at Western University in 2022.  Dr. Yang is cross-appointed in Medical Imaging for Interventional Neuroradiology, Orthopedic Spine surgery, and Medical Biophysics. He earned a Master’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1998 and completed the MD-PhD (Medical Biophysics) program at the University of Toronto in 2006, for which he was recognized by a Governor General’s Gold Medal.  He completed Neurosurgery residency program at the University of Toronto with in-folded Interventional Neuroradiology fellowship in 2012, and joined University of Toronto neurosurgery faculty, where he was promoted to full professor in 2021.  Dr. Yang completed a combined complex spine fellowship at University of Calgary in 2021.