
Research
Health services research is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on improving the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare services. Within health services research, our group at the Yeo Lab has three focus areas:
As new technological capabilities emerge, our team seeks to understand how these advancements can be used to improve health services for both providers and patients. Our projects in this area have ranged from the creation of a mobile health app that aids in patient post-operative monitoring to developing an electronic health record-based notification system for physicians.
2 . Decreasing attrition in the Surgical Workforce
Our research aims to identify best practices in the retention and faculty and trainees in surgery. We have studied surgical training for 16 years and are the only group to have successfully tracked an entire cohort of U.S. surgical trainees for over a decade.
3 . Improving health care and outcomes
Our group focuses on improving outcomes and reducing barriers for patients suffering from long-term illness. We aim to elucidate population of unequal healthcare access, treatment, and delivery. In addition to identifying differences in these areas, we also focus on the characterization of social, economic, and historical factors that contribute to the persistence of these issues. Our team believes that by considering both clinical and social contexts, interventions will be more successful in addressing population-specific factors.
Bio
Dr. Yeo is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine where she specializes in colon and rectal surgery. She received her M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2004 and completed her residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2011. Since then, she has gone on to receive her M.H.S. from Yale University School of Medicine, M.S. in Healthcare Leadership at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and her M.B.A. from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Yeo teaches an elective course, Digital Innovations in Healthcare, for the EMBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program.
Distinctions:
- Association of Women Surgeons Foundation and Ethicon Endo Surgery, Inc. Fellowship, 2013-2014
- Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program Grant, 2014-2016
- Founder and Director of Weill Cornell’s Center for Surgical Outcomes Research 2015-present
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Clinical Investigator Award 2016-2022
- Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine 2019
- Castle Connelly Top Doctors 2023
- R01 NIMHD Grant Recipient 2023
- New York SuperDoctor: an Honor given to 5% of all New York physicians
Current Projects:
- Care Fragmentation
- Decreasing Attrition in the Surgical Workforce
- Using Mobile Apps to Monitor Patients after Surgery