Medical High School

Linda Yinglin Tang

** ****** **, **** ******, NJ 07052 USA

Cell: 646-***-**** Email address: ********@*******.***

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING:

CLEVELAND CLINIC Cleveland, OH 07/2008-06/2009

IBD Fellowship (Board Certified in Gastroenterology in Canada and USA)

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Winnipeg, MB 07/2006-06/2008

Gastroenterology Fellowship, Chief Fellow

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Winnipeg, MB 07/2003-06/2006

Internal Medicine Residency Program (Board Certified in IM in Canada and USA)

EDUCATION:

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL Kingston, ON 09/1999-05/2003

M.D.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA 09/1994-06/1998

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (with Honors)

BALMORAL HALL SCHOOL Winnipeg, MB 09/1990-06/1994

High School, Cumulative average: 97.1%

HONOURS AND AWARDS:

North American Conference for GI Fellows (NACGF) 2007

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology GRIT program 2007

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Scholar’s Program 2005

J.F. Sparks Scholarship, Boyd Upper Award 2000-2003

Howard Hughes Research Foundation Grant, Honours Thesis in Biology 06/1997

Governor General’s Medal, E.G. Drewry Award, Gwendolyn Murrell-Wright 06/1994

Scholarship, The G. Harold Aikins Award for Science,

University of Toronto’s National Book Award

MANUSCRIPTS:

Tang LY, Rawsthorne P, Bernstein CN. Are Perineal and Luminal Fistulas associated in Crohn’s Disease? A Population-based Study. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2006 Sept; 4(9):1130-4. Also oral presentation at DDW.

Tang SJ, Sreenarasimhaiah J, Tang L, Rollins N, Purdy P. Endoscopic Injection

Sclerotherapy with Doxycycline for Mediastinal and Esophageal lymphangiohemangioma. Gastrointest Endosc. 2007 Dec;66(6):1196-200.

Tang SJ, Tang L, Gupta S, Rivas H. Endoclip Closure of Jejunal Perforation after Balloon Dilatation. Obesity Surgery. 2007;17:540-543.

Tang LY, A Nabalamba, Graff LA, Bernstein CN. A Comparison of Self-perceived General and Mental Health and Stress Levels in IBD and IBS patients from a National Canadian Survey. Can J Gastroenterol. 2008 May;22(5):475-83.

Tang LY, Demers A, Singh H. Incidence of right-sided colorectal cancer after breast cancer: a population-based study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2009 May;104(5):1213-20. Poster of Distinction at DDW 2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

GASTROENTEROLOGIST

NY and NJ Gastroenterology Associates, Metuchen NJ and NY 01/2015-present

- Clinical general gastroenterology

GASTROENTEROLOGIST 09/2010-12/2014

Sparta Medical, Lafayette, NJ; St. Clare Hospital, Denville, NJ

- Clinical gastroenterologist in a multispecialty group

GASTROENTEROLOGIST 08/2009-08/2010

Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA

- Clinical gastroenterologist in a hospital setting with inpatient and outpatient responsibilities.

HEALTH POLICY RESEARCHER 07/1998-06/1999

Manitoba Center for Health Policy and Evaluation, Winnipeg, MB

- Wrote programming to apply the cost list for hospital services to Manitoba hospital data.

HONOURS THESIS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 09/1996-06/1998

Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA

- Analyzed the role of the protein Ku in mediating double-strand-break repair and VDJ recombination.

SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP 06/1996-08/1996

Dr. Phillip Sharp (Nobel Prize in Medicine), MIT, Boston, MA

- Searched for regions of functional importance on the mSin3A gene.

SUMMER RESEARCH STUDENT 06/1995-09/1995

Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, MB

- Developed and implemented a clinical test for phenotyping and genotyping ApoE.

- Discovered correlations between ApoE4 and Late Onset Alzheimer Disease.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

HALF-DAY COMMITTEE, University of Manitoba, MB 07/2003-06/2006

- Organize and coordinate academic programming for the internal medicine residents.

CURRICULUM REPRESENTATIVE, Queen’s University, ON 09/2001-06/2002

- Advocate for the medical class in issues concerning the medical curriculum.

RESPONSIBLE SEXUALITY COORDINATOR, Queen’s University, ON 09/1999-06/2000

- Organized a program to encourage high school students to practice responsible sexuality.

ACTIVITIES VOLUNTEER, St. Amant’s Centre, MB 07/1998-06/1999

- Volunteer at St. Amant’s Centre, a hospital for physically and mentally

challenged children and adults.

SPECIALTY VOLUNTEER, Stanford Hospital, CA 09/1994-04/1998

- Comforted patients by planning social events and helping to perform

tasks that they were unable to do.

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