Yonker Y. Wang, M.D. - Department of Radiology

Yonker Y. Wang, M.D.
ADDRESS:
University of Wisconsin, Department of Radiology
600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-3252
Voice Mail: (608) 263-8922
e-mail: ywang@uwhealth.org yonkerwang@yahoo.com,
EDUCATION:
1978 - 1983 Harbin Medical University, P.R. China
1983 M.D. Degree of Medicine
1983 - 1986 Harbin Medical University, Graduate School of Harbin Medical University,
China
1987 M.S. Harbin Medical University, Graduate School of Harbin Medical University,
China, Department of Radiology
CLINICAL TRAINING:
1983 - 1986 Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, First Teaching Hospital of Harbin
Medical University, China
1986 - 1988 Fellow, Diagnostic Radiology, First Teaching Hospital of Harbin Medical
University, China
1998 – 2002 Resident, Radiology, Transition Year Resident, St. Luke's Medical Center,
Milwaukee
2006 – 2007 Fellow, Pediatric Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology
Johns Hopkins University
CERTIFICATION: 2002 American Board of Radiology
LICENSURE: Active: Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Florida, Hawaii, Chinese Board of
Radiology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
July 1983 - June 1988 Radiology Resident / Fellow Harbin Medical University, China
July 1988 - Aug. 1993 Attending Radiologist, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
Aug. 1993 - June 1994 Radiology Visiting Fellow, St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
University of Missouri in Kansas City
July, 1994 - Feb. 1995 Radiology Visiting Fellow, Racho Las Amigos Medical Center
University of Southern California
Feb. 1995 - June 1998 MRI, fMRI, MRS research Fellow, Biophysics Research Institute
and department of Radiology Milwaukee, Medical College of Wisconsin
July 1998 - June 2002 Radiology Resident, Transition Year Resident. St. Luke's
Medical Center, Milwaukee
July 2002 - April 2006 Staff Radiologist, Community Imaging Consultants, S.C.
Enhanced Medical Imaging, LLC, Racine, Wisconsin
July 2005 - Sept. 2007 Staff Radiologist, Enhanced Medical Imaging, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin

Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2007 Pediatric Radiology Fellow, Russell H. Morgan Department of
Radiology, Johns Hopkins University
Nov. 2007 - May 16, 2008 Consulting Radiologist, Peace River Regional Medical Center,
Florida. Grossman Imaging Centers, California
May 19, 2008 – Present Staff Radiologist / Assistant Professor, Pediatric Radiology,
Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin, Meriter Hospital,
Madison, Wisconsin
CLINICAL TEACHING AND COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
Weekly NICU radiology rounds, Meriter Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
Medical Student Bi-weekly Lectures
Monthly Radiology Resident Lectures
Weekly Hematology Oncology Board
Daily Pediatric Service rounds
CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST
Autism, Investigated with Brain fMRI, Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Neuro-connectivity
Studies
RESEARCH AWARDS:
Co-Investigator: Functional MRI/MRS of Human Cocaine Abuse,
PI: Shi-Jiang Li, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute of Health
$1,462.288, 9/30/1997 - 8/31/2002
Co-Investigator: In vivo MRS Diagnosis of Tumor Hypoxia and Reoxygenation,
PI: Shi-Jiang Li, National Cancer Institute, NIH, $537,940 4/1/1992 - 3/31/1997
Received several awards in China
MEMBERSHIPS:
American College of Radiology
American Roentgen Ray Society
Radiological Society of North America
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Society of Pediatric Radiology
PUBLICATIONS: RADIOLOGY RELATED TOPICS
Book Chapters:
One text book (The Spine Imaging), ISBN 7-5388-2549-5/R. 347 1994:
Manuscript writer and director for an educational video (Clinical Application of CT) 1989;
Over a dozen peer reviewed papers on the topics of Clinical applications of the CT, US,
and MRI of Neuroimaing, body imaging and MSK imaging published in China from 1983
to 1994.
Original Papers:
Y. Wang, S.J Li: Differentiation Metabolic Concentrations In Gray Matter and White

Matter of the Human Brain by in Vivo 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine, 39: 28-33, 1998
S.J. Li, Y. Wang, J. Pankiewicz and E. A. Stein: Neurochemical Adaptation to Cocaine
Abuse: Reduction of N-Acetyl Aspartate in Thalamus of Human Cocaine Abusers,
Biological Psychiatry, Volume 45, Number 11, June 1, 1999
S-J, Li, Biswal, B.B., Y. Wang, Li, Z., Risinger, R., Rainey, C., Cho, J.K., Salmeron, B.J.,
and Stein, E.A. Acute cocaine administration alters functional connectivity in human
primary visual cortex detected by fMRI. Magn. Reson. Med., 43, 45-51, 2000
P.G. Autuono, J.L. Jones, Y. Wang, and S.J. Li: Decreased glutamate + glutamine in
Alzheimer’s disease in vivo with 1 H-MRS at 0.5 T, Neurology 2001; 56:737-742
S.J. Li, Y. Wang, and E.A. Stein: Neurochemical Alterations in Cocaine Abusers After
Acute Cocaine Administration Assessed by 1 H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Abstracts (Selected):
D.L.Braslau, Y.Wang, A.K. Wang: Diagnosis of Osteomyelitis in Diabetic Feet with Use
of MRI: Accuracy, Clinical Utility, and Cost Effectiveness. International Society of
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM),Nice, France, August, 1995
A.W. Song, Y. Wang, S.G. Tan, J.S.Hyde, S.J.Li,: Measurement of T2*Value Using
Phase Encoded EPI. ISMRM, Nice, France, August, 1995
Y. Wang, S.J. Li: Distribution of Metabolic Concentrations in Human Brain. ISMRM, New
York, April, 1996
S.J. Li, Y. Wang, E. Stein, et al.: Reversible Neurochemical Alteration in Cocaine
Abusers
Assessed by 1 H MRS. ISMRM, New York, April, 1996
Li, S-J., Pankiewicz, J., Wang, Y., Bloom, A.S., Terry, L.C Alterations in Brain Chemistry
of Cocaine Abusers Studied Using 1-H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. College on
Problems of Drug Dependence, Puerto Rico, June,1996
Bloom, A.S., Li, S-J., Wang, Y., Pankiewicz, J.,Harsch,H., Cho, J-K.,Prost, R. And Stein,
E.A.., and Stein, E.A. Neurochemical Alterations in the Human Brain Following Acute
Cocaine Administration Assessed by 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
Neuroscience Abs., 1996
Wang, S.J. Li: Differentiation of Metabolic Concentration between White and Gray Matter
in Occipital and Frontal Regions of Human Brain. ISMRM Vancouver, Canada, March,
1997.
S.J. Li, Y. Wang, J.J. Xiang, G.Y. Jin: FMRI Studies with Acupuncture Stimulation.
ISMRM, Vancouver, Canada, March, 1997.
Yonker Wang, M.D. updated 7/25/09