Yesol Yang
PhD, RN
Assistant Professor Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management and Complex Care
Biography
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.
{"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/oHqtLislD7o.jpg?itok=ktGR5tmN","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHqtLislD7o","settings":{"responsive":1,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":0},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]}
- 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
- Oncology Nursing Foundation RE34 Research Award, 2025-2027, Yang (PI)
- 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)