Jacky Yeung

Dr. Jacky Yeung is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques and tumor immunology. He holds affiliations with the Chen Lab and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. His clinical expertise includes endoscopic cranial and spinal surgery, with a focus on brain and spinal disorders. Dr. Yeung completed his MD at Michigan State University and his neurosurgery residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, followed by a fellowship in minimally invasive neurosurgery in Sydney, Australia.

Education:

• BSc (Honors Physiology), University of British Columbia (2008)
• MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (2013)
• Residency: Neurosurgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital (2020)
• Fellowship: Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia (2021)

Research Interests:

• Tumor immunology: Mechanisms of immune evasion in gliomas and meningiomas
• Functional connectomics: Machine learning applications for preoperative brain mapping and neurorehabilitation
• Minimally invasive neurosurgical innovations: Endoscopic techniques and personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Key Achievements:

• Recipient of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (2011)
• Developed a peptide vaccine for ependymoma clinical trials (NIH-funded)
• First neurosurgeon to publish on personalized preoperative brain mapping using connectome analysis
• Author of Connectomic Medicine, a seminal work in functional brain mapping

Grants & Recognition:

• AANS Tumor Section Skull Base Research Award (2019)
• Yale School of Medicine's Dennis D. Spencer Academic Achievement Award (2017)
• Over 50 peer-reviewed publications in journals like Science Immunology and Neuro-Oncology

Labs & Teams: Active member of the Chen Lab at Yale, focusing on tumor immunology and neurosurgical innovation.