Qingyang (Kristy) Yuan, MD

Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology

My education and training

  • Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Washington University, St. Louis
  • Fellowship: University of California San Francisco

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Lancaster General Hospital
  • Doylestown Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Yuan is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Alex Chen, Christina Blum, Sonya Zhou, Qingyang Yuan Bridging the Gap: Improving Post-acute Stroke Follow Up , Poster presentation, Stroke Transitions of Care and Post-stroke Care Conference, Houston, TX: 2025

Christopher G Favilla, Navpreet Reehal, Stephanie R Cummings, Rebecca Burdett, Laura A Stein, Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, Kristy Yuan, Kelly L Sloane, Scott E Kasner Personalized Video-Based Educational Platform to Improve Stroke Knowledge: A Randomized Clinical Trial , JAHA, 13(15): 2024

Mohammad Hossein Abbasi, Kristy Yuan, Scott E Kasner, Ellen McPartland, Karrima C Owens, Kelly L Sloane Text Message-Based Assessment of 90-Day Modified Rankin Scale After Stroke , JAHA: 2024

SELECT 2 investigators Trial of Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Ischemic Strokes. , NEJM , 388(14): 2023

STROKE-AF investigators Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Stroke Attributed to Large- or Small-Vessel Disease: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of the STROKE AF Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA Neurology, 80(1): 2023

Tropea T, Fuentes A, Roberts Z, Spindler M, Yuan K, Perrone C, Do D, Jacobs D, Wechsler, L Provider experience with teleneurology in an academic Neurology department , Telemed J E Health, 28(3): 2022,374-383

Meredith Spindler, Dina Jacobs, Kristy Yuan, Thomas Tropea, Clare W. Teng, , Christopher Perrone, David Do, Lawrence Wechsler A department approach to teleneurology , Telemed J E Health, 27(9): 2021

STROKE-AF investigators Effect of Long-term Continuous Cardiac Monitoring vs Usual Care on Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Stroke Attributed to Large- or Small-Vessel Disease: The STROKE-AF Randomized Clinical Trial. , JAMA, 325(21): 2021

Meisel K, Yuan K, Fang Q, Bibby D, Lee R, Schiller NB. Embolic stroke of undetermined source: A population with left atrial dysfunction , J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis, 28(7): 2019,1891-1896

SHINE investigators Intensive vs Standard Treatment of Hyperglycemia and Functional Outcome in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: The SHINE Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA, 322(4): 2019