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Yuqing Zhang, MD, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery / Pharmacology
Robert Schattner Center, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 240 South 40th Street, Suite 100-Room 105, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6030
Room: Suite 100-Room 105
Phone: (215)-898-9686
Fax: (215)-746-8890
Email: zhangyq@upenn.edu

Professional Biography

Dr. Yuqing (Madison) Zhang is a physician and clinical epidemiologist (M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.) with over 15 years of experience advancing evidence synthesis, guideline development, and randomized trials in both integrative and conventional medicine. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, part-time Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University, Canada, and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

With over 80 peer-reviewed publications, she has collaborated globally with the WHO, American College of Physicians, America Thoracic Society, America Society of Hematology, The world Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion societies among others. Notably, she led the BMJ Acupuncture collection, a landmark international series uniting 100+ scientists from 40+ organizations to provide critical methodological guidance that informs clinical practice, reimbursement, and policy decisions.

Dr. Zhang’s work bridges research creation, synthesis, and implementation into clinical practice and policy worldwide. She has trained over 600 clinicians, researchers, and graduate students in evidence synthesis and guideline methodology, and serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals.

Selected Publications

  1. Lu L, Zhang Y, Tang X, Ge S, Wen H, Zeng J, Wang L, Zeng Z, Rada G, Ávila C, Vergara C, Tang Y, Zhang P, Chen R, Dong Y, Wei X, Luo W, Wang L, Guyatt G, Tang C, Xu N. Evidence on acupuncture therapies is underused in clinical practice and health policy. BMJ. 2022 Feb 25;376:e067475. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067475. PMID: 35217525; PMCID: PMC8868048.
  2. Zhang YQ, Jiao RM, Witt CM, Lao L, Liu JP, Thabane L, Sherman KJ, Cummings M, Richards DP, Kim EA, Kim TH, Lee MS, Wechsler ME, Brinkhaus B, Mao JJ, Smith CA, Gang WJ, Liu BY, Liu ZS, Liu Y, Zheng H, Wu JN, Carrasco-Labra A, Bhandari M, Devereaux PJ, Jing XH, Guyatt G. How to design high quality acupuncture trials-a consensus informed by evidence. BMJ. 2022 Mar 30;376:e067476. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067476. Erratum in: BMJ. 2022 Apr 25;377:o1046. doi: 10.1136/bmj.o1046. PMID: 35354583; PMCID: PMC8965655.
  3. Zhang YQ, Lu L, Xu N, Tang X, Shi X, Carrasco-Labra A, Schünemann H, Chen Y, Xia J, Chen G, Liu J, Liu B, Wang J, Qaseem A, Jing X, Guyatt G, Zhao H. Increasing the usefulness of acupuncture guideline recommendations. BMJ. 2022 Feb 25;376:e070533. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-070533. PMID: 35217506; PMCID: PMC8868046.
  4. Ortel TL, Neumann I, Ageno W, Beyth R, Clark NP, Cuker A, Hutten BA, Jaff MR, Manja V, Schulman S, Thurston C, Vedantham S, Verhamme P, Witt DM, D Florez I, Izcovich A, Nieuwlaat R, Ross S, J Schünemann H, Wiercioch W, Zhang Y, Zhang Y. American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Blood Adv. 2020 Oct 13;4(19):4693-4738. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020001830. PMID: 33007077; PMCID: PMC7556153.
  5. Leone FT, Zhang Y, Evers-Casey S, Evins AE, Eakin MN, Fathi J, Fennig K, Folan P, Galiatsatos P, Gogineni H, Kantrow S, Kathuria H, Lamphere T, Neptune E, Pacheco MC, Pakhale S, Prezant D, Sachs DPL, Toll B, Upson D, Xiao D, Cruz-Lopes L, Fulone I, Murray RL, O’Brien KK, Pavalagantharajah S, Ross S, Zhang Y, Zhu M, Farber HJ. Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul 15;202(2):e5-e31. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202005-1982ST. PMID: 32663106; PMCID: PMC7365361.
  6. Schünemann HJ, Zhang Y, Oxman AD; Expert Evidence in Guidelines Group. Distinguishing opinion from evidence in guidelines. BMJ. 2019 Jul 19;366:l4606. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4606. PMID: 31324659.
  7. Zhang Y, Alonso-Coello P, Guyatt GH, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Akl EA, Hazlewood G, Pardo-Hernandez H, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Qaseem A, Williams JW Jr, Tugwell P, Flottorp S, Chang Y, Zhang Y, Mustafa RA, Rojas MX, Schünemann HJ. GRADE Guidelines: 19. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences-Risk of bias and indirectness. J Clin Epidemiol. 2019 Jul;111:94-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.01.013. Epub 2018 Feb 13. PMID: 29452223.
  8. Zhang Y, Coello PA, Guyatt GH, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Akl EA, Hazlewood G, Pardo-Hernandez H, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Qaseem A, Williams JW Jr, Tugwell P, Flottorp S, Chang Y, Zhang Y, Mustafa RA, Rojas MX, Xie F, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences-inconsistency, imprecision, and other domains. J Clin Epidemiol. 2019 Jul;111:83-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.05.011. Epub 2018 May 22. PMID: 29800687.

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