Doctor Yang Chen

Yang is an academic cardiologist based at London teaching hospitals (UCLH, Barts Heart Centre) and University College London (UCL). Yang studied medicine at the University of Oxford and graduated in 2013. He started his UK Cardiology training in 2017 and was awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at UCL. He completed an Executive MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science with Distinction in 2021. He completed a PhD focused on pragmatic randomised controlled trials within the electronic health record at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics in 2026. He has a broad interest in clinical decision-making and is co-author of the book "Thinking about thinking: a prescription for healthcare improvement" (2024), which examines cognitive biases in medicine and the role of training, AI and automation in healthcare.