Otto O. Yang
- Actor
Otto Yang was born to Taiwanese immigrants to the United States and grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He attended college and medical school in Providence Rhode Island, did internal medicine residency training in New York City, and completed infectious diseases fellowship training in Boston. He is a professor at a major medical school in Los Angeles, where he runs a laboratory studying viral immune responses, and also sees patients as an infectious diseases physician. During early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, he performed dozens of press interviews with major news organizations such as CNN, ABC, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal.