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

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

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

297 reviews

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November 2025
impressive
October 2025
i liked her. she seemed interested. i felt like she heard me
October 2025
she was informative and very communicative.
September 2025
she answered all her questions everything was perfect

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Yuan is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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