Membership Director

 

 

Liya Yin, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, FCVS-APS

Associate Professor
Dept. of Integrative Medical Science

Northeast Ohio Medical University

Rootstown, Ohio 44272

 

Biography

 

Dr. Liya Yin earned her M.D., a Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University. She received her postdoc training at West Virginia University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Yin has been a tenured Associate Professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University since 2019. Yin lab integrates vascular biology and microcirculation and studies coronary collateral growth (CCG) and regulation of coronary microcirculation in metabolic syndromes. Her lab applies lineage tracing, micro-CT, two-photon and light-sheet scope to understand the mechanism of CCG and stress contrast echocardiography to measure the coronary blood flow. The long-term goal of her laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms and therapeutic implications of ischemic heart diseases combined with metabolic syndromes. She is a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Physiology Society (APS). Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Fellowship Committee of CardioVascular section (CVS) of APS and a Member of the Steering Committee of CVS.