Yesol Yang

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First Name

Yesol

Last Name

Yang

Credentials

PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management and Complex Care

yang.6310@osu.edu

614-292-5172

Address

360 Newton Hall

Address (Line 2)

295 W. 10th Ave.

City

Columbus

State

Zip Code

43210

Dr. Yesol Yang is a nurse scientist with training in breast cancer (BC) control and survivorship. Her current research focuses on how individual differences in sensitivity to uncertainty relate to cognitive function in BC survivors, using multimodal psychological techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging and startle eyeblink potentiation. Her overall research goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying cancer-related cognitive impairment in BC survivors and then to develop interventional strategies.

Dr. Yang earned her BSN at Korea University and completed her post-master’s Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where she obtained her master’s in nursing education. She completed her PhD at the Duke University School of Nursing and a two-year T32 postdoctoral fellowship at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Yang becomes inaugural recipient of Donna Bovina Sanders and Mary Patricia Armstrong Nursing Cancer Research Endowed Fund

Publications

Yang, Y., Naughton, M., McLaughlin, E., Von Ah, D., Carroll, J, & Paskett, E. (2024). Fear of cancer recurrence and cognitive function of women with Non-CNS cancers: Findings from the Women’s Health Initiative Life and Longevity After Cancer (LILAC) Study. Preventive Oncology&Epidemiology, 1:1, 2292359. doi: 10.1080/28322134.2023.2292359
Yang, Y., Jimmy, J., Jones, E.E., Kreutzer, K., Bryan, C.J., & Gorka, S.M. (2023). Neural reactivity to threat impacts the association between bullying victimization and suicide risk in youth. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 163, 288-295. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.05.064
Yang, Y., Gorka, S.M., Pennell, M.L., Weinhold, K., & Orchard, T. (2023). Intolerance of uncertainty and cognition in breast cancer survivors: the mediating role of anxiety. Cancers, 15(12), 3105. doi: 10.3390/cancers15123105
Yang, Y., McLaughlin, E. M., Naughton, M. J., Lustberg, M. B., Nolan, T. S., Kroenke, C. H., Weitlauf, J. C., Saquib, N., Shadyab, A. H., Follis, S., Pan, K., & Paskett, E. D. (2022). Social Support, social ties, and cognitive function of women with breast cancer: findings from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Life and Longevity After Cancer (LILAC) Study. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 31(1), 48. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07505-5
Von Ah, D., Crouch, A., Arthur, E. Yang, Y., & Nolan, T. (2022). Association between cardiovascular disease and cognitive dysfunction in breast cancer survivors. Cancer Nursing, doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001083
Yang, Y., Lin, Y., Sikapokoo, G.O., Min, S., Caviness-Ashe, N., Zhang, J., Ledbetter, L., & Nolan, T.S. (2022). Social relationships and their associations with affective symptoms of women with breast cancer: A scoping review, PLoS ONE, 18 (8): e0272649, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272649
Yang, Y., Pan, W., Farag, S.S., & Von Ah, D. (2022). Effect of family cohesion on symptom distress during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Supportive Care in Cancer, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06593-z
Yang, Y., Romine, W., Park, H.K., Oyesanya, T., & Hendrix, C.C. (2022). The association of self-esteem with caregiving demands, coping, burden, and health among caregivers of breast cancer patients: A structural equation modeling approach. Cancer Nursing, doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001011
Yang, Y., Poillucci, V., Allen, D., Pan, W., McConnell, E., & Hendrix, C.C. (2021). Exploring caregiver characteristics associated with cognitive complaints in women with breast cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 48(4), 453-464. doi:10.1188/21.ONF.453-464
Yang, Y., Rushton, S., Park, H., Son, H., Woodward, A., McConnell, E., & Hendrix, C.C (2020). Understanding on the association between caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer: A Scoping Review. Asia Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 7(2), 115-128. doi: 10.4103/apjon.apjon_3_20
Yang, Y., Pan, W., Allen, D., & Hendrix, C.C (2019). Caregiver burden as a mediator between emotional distress and concentration problems in patients with cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 46(6), E180-184. doi:10.1188/19.ONF.E180-E184
Yang, Y., Rushton, S., Woodward, A., & Hendrix, C (2019). Understanding on the association between informal caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031842
Yang, Y., & Hendrix, C. C (2018). Cancer-related cognitive impairment in breast cancer patients: Influences of psychological variables. Asia Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 5, 296-306. doi: 10.4103/apjon.apjon_16_18

Funded Research Grants

Ohio State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Path to K Mentored Career Development Award, 2025; Yang (PI)
Ohio State College of Nursing; Donna Bovina Sanders & Mary Patricia Armstrong Nursing Cancer Research Endowed Fund, 2024-2026; Yang (PI) (read about it here)

News

June 11, 2025

Jane E. Heminger Hall earns WELL Gold certification for health and wellness-centered design

College of Nursing home is first building at Ohio State to earn designation

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has awarded The Ohio State University College of Nursing’s Jane E. Heminger Hall WELL Gold Certification for its construction and design features that promote and support health and well-being. It is the first building at Ohio State to earn this designation.

May 27, 2025

Tornwall awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Kyrgyzstan

Joni Tornwall, clinical professor, College of Nursing, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to teach student-centered nursing practices at Kyrgyz State Medical Academy.