Research Assistant Professor
Phone: (412) 648-7813
e-mail: yanhq@upmc.edu

Specialized Areas of Interest

Acupuncture research and treatment in neurological diseases such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke, Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), etc.; Mechanisms of induction and recovery of functional and pathological deficits following TBI; Pharmaceutical therapies for recovery of post traumatic functional deficits; Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine research and treatment in the other diseases such as cancer.

Biography

Dr. Hong Qu Yan is a licensed acupuncturist of Pennsylvania and New York states. Dr. Yan received his medical degree in 1982 from Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China and completed his residency program at the Shanghai First Pulmonary Hospital, in China. He then pursued his master’s degree in medical and pharmaceutical research at Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium. In 1992, he became a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX. In 1996, he joined the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral fellow.

Dr. Yan's publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine's publication database.