
Tina W. F. Yen, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO
Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology; Co-Director, GEO Shared Resource; Interim Program Leader, MCW Cancer Center Breast Disease-Oriented Team
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
Cancer Center
Education
Residency in General Surgery, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA, 2002
Fellowship in Surgical Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2004
MS, Epidemiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2006
Biography
Dr. Yen, Professor of Surgery, is a native of Hanover, NH, graduated salutatorian from Dartmouth College, received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2004, after completing her surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She obtained her MS degree in Epidemiology shortly after joining MCW. Her clinical practice is devoted solely to caring for patients with breast cancer and tumors of the endocrine system (thyroid and parathyroid). At MCW, she is the Service Chief for Breast and Endocrine Surgery at Froedtert Hospital and Associate Program Director for the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship program. She is actively involved in multiple surgical societies, holding committee and leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Society of University Surgeons, and Central Surgical Association.
Research Experience
- Breast Diseases
- Breast Neoplasms
- Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
- Endocrine Surgical Procedures
- Lymphedema
- Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Clinical Expertise
- Breast Diseases
- Breast Neoplasms
- Hyperparathyroidism, Primary
- Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary
- Hyperthyroidism
- Parathyroid Diseases
- Parathyroidectomy
- Thyroid Neoplasms
- Thyroid Nodule
- Thyroidectomy
Methodologies and Techniques
- Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms
- Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
- Adrenalectomy
- Adrenocortical Carcinoma
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating
- Case-Control Studies
- Cohort Studies
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
Leadership Positions
- Associate Program Director, MCW complex general surgical oncology fellowship
- Co-Director, Geospatial, Epidemiology and Outcomes Shared Resource, MCW Cancer Center
- Institutional Principal Investigator, Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
- Interim Breast Disease-Oriented Team Program Leader, MCW Cancer Center
- Service Chief, Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Froedtert Hospital
MCW Program / Core Facilities
- Observational Methods
Research Interests
Dr. Yen’s research program is also devoted to breast cancer and endocrine surgery. Her health services research program in breast cancer focuses on quality of care, disparities in care, and the processes, patterns and outcomes of care. Past and current projects include lymphedema incidence and risk factors (funded by an NIH K07 Career Development Award), variation in extent of axillary surgery by surgeon and hospital factors, variation in breast cancer processes of care by hospital volume and understanding the use of advanced practice providers in the outpatient clinic setting. Her work has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and various foundation, society and institutional grants. In addition, she is the Co-Director of the MCW Cancer Center Geospatial, Epidemiology and Outcomes Shared Resource and serves as MCW’s principal investigator for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a national clinical trials network sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
Publications
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(Dream S, Yen TWF, Doffek K, Evans DB, Wang TS.) Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022 May 10 PMID: 35538172 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85129711351 05/11/2022
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(Yen TWF.) Surgery. 2022 03;171(3):572-576 PMID: 34863522 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120402676 12/06/2021
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(Park SY, Scotting O, Yen TWF, Evans DB, Wang TS, Dream S.) Surgery. 2022 03;171(3):731-735 PMID: 34844753 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120038519 12/01/2021
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(Cortina CS, Yen TWF, Bergom C, Fields B, Craft MA, Currey A, Kong AL.) Surgery. 2022 03;171(3):682-686 PMID: 34736790 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118558521 11/06/2021
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(Dream S, Park S, Yen TW, Rilling W, Rein L, Doffek K, Findling JW, Magill SB, Kidambi S, Evans DB, Wang TS.) Endocr Pract. 2022 Mar;28(3):276-281 PMID: 34582994 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125481960 09/29/2021
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The Clinical Utility of Preoperative Thyroglobulin for Surgical Decision Making in Thyroid Disease.
(Kang M, Wang TS, Yen TW, Doffek K, Evans DB, Dream S.) J Surg Res. 2022 02;270:230-235 PMID: 34710703 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85117802919 10/29/2021
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(Yen TWF.) Surgery (United States). March 2022;171(3):572-576 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120402676 03/01/2022
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Mortgage Lending Bias and Breast Cancer Survival Among Older Women in the United States.
(Beyer KMM, Zhou Y, Laud PW, McGinley EL, Yen TWF, Jankowski C, Rademacher N, Namin S, Kwarteng J, Beltrán Ponce S, Nattinger AB.) J Clin Oncol. 2021 09 01;39(25):2749-2757 PMID: 34129388 PMCID: PMC8407650 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115440319 06/16/2021
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An Institutional experience with primary hyperparathyroidism in the elderly over two decades.
(O'Sullivan K, Yen TWF, Doffek K, Dream S, Mazotas I, Evans DB, Wang TS.) Am J Surg. 2021 Sep;222(3):549-553 PMID: 33551115 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100630649 02/09/2021
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(Yen TWF, Garacci Z, Laud PW, Pezzin LE, Nattinger AB.) Breast Cancer. 2021 May;28(3):698-709 PMID: 33398775 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85098792560 01/06/2021
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(Lang N, Saxena D, Yen T, Jorns J, Yu B, Ye DH.) Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2021;11603 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85103253954 01/01/2021
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(Lu T, Jorns J, Patton M, Fisher R, Emmrich A, Gilat-Schmidt T, Ye DH, Yen T, Yu B.) Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. 2021 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85119658947 01/01/2021