{"id":65198,"date":"2023-07-12T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=65198"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:13:25","slug":"emmy-yang-md","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/people\/emmy-yang-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Yang, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy is from Atlanta and attended Yale for college where she majored\u00a0in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Emmy speaks Spanish,\u00a0Portuguese, and Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>As a medical student, she received a full\u00a0scholarship to pursue a two-year Master of Theological Studies with a\u00a0concentration in medical ethics through Duke University. Her thesis\u00a0focused on \u201ca theological exploration of time and implications on\u00a0medicine and care for the elderly\u201d. 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