Ming Yang, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,
Biography
Ming Yang, M.D., is a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Health and an assistant profess at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is researching the link between obesity and metabolic health and the hyposialylation of immunoglobulin G in adolescent patients.
Dr. Yang earned her medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed her residence any fellowship at UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center.
Dr. Yang is a member of several professional medical organizations, including American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrine Society and Endocrine Society.
She was named D Magazine’s Best Doctor in 2022 and Best Pediatric Specialist in 2021.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas HSC at San Antonio (2012)
- Residency
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2015), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2018), Pediatric Endocrinology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Endocrinology
Conditions
- 22q Deletion Syndrome (DiGeorge Syndrome VCFS)
- Addison's Disease
- Adrenal Carcinomas
- Adrenal Disorders
- Adrenal Masses
- Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)
- Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)
- Constitutional Growth Delay
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Delayed Puberty
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)
- Follicular Thyroid Cancer
- Graves' Disease
- Growth Hormone Deficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hyperglycemia (High Blood Sugar)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar)
- Hypogonadism
- Hypothyroidism
- Klinefelter Syndrome
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS)
- Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY)
- McCune-Albright Syndrome
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer
- Multinodular Goiter
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN)
- Papillary Thyroid Cancer
- Parathyroid Masses
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pituitary Lesions
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Pre-Diabetes
- Precocious Puberty (Early Puberty)
- Short Stature
- Thyroid Carcinoma (Cancer)
- Thyroid Nodules
- Thyroiditis (Hashimoto's Disease)
- Turner Syndrome
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Relationship between obesity and metabolic health and hyposialylation of IgG in adolescent patients
- Adrenal disorders
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Publications
- Risk factors for hospitalization of children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Yang M, White PC Clinical endocrinology 2017 Feb
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2012)
- Pediatric Endocrine Society (2015)
- Endocrine Society (2016)
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Awards and Honors
- D Magazine Best Pediatric Specialists 2021
- Phi Lambda Upsilon National Chemistry Honor Society 2008
- Medical School President's Council Scholarship 2008
- Pediatric Endocrine Society Travel Award 2017
- Endocrine Society Early Career Forum Travel Award 2018
- American Diabetes Association Focus on Fellows Travel Award 2018
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