Louise Wang, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor in the Section of Digestive Diseases at Yale School of Medicine and Staff Gastroenterologist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare system.  

Dr. Wang’s research focuses on screening and prevention of precursor lesions and pancreatic cancer (PDAC), the third leading cause of cancer mortality. By integrating approaches in bioinformatics, cancer epidemiology, and genetics, she aims to improve on traditional cancer risk prediction and leverage electronic health record linked biobanks to identify high risk individuals for PDAC for subsequent targeted screening and surveillance. 

Dr. Wang has developed methodological expertise to carry out analyses of the VA electronic medical record for millions of individuals. She also leads efforts to improve early detection of pancreatic cancer within the VA Million Veteran Program, the largest megabiobank in the world, which links the necessary longitudinal clinical data with germline genetics. These techniques can also be applied to evaluating the populations for noninvasive screening for colorectal cancer and multicancer screening for GI cancers.