
Lawrence Yao
MD
Musculoskeletal Radiologist

Lawrence Yao, MD
Musculoskeletal Radiologist
About Lawrence Yao
Dr. Lawrence Yao is a fellowship-trained musculoskeletal radiologist with special expertise in MRI applications and image processing. Dr. Yao is an independent, subspecialized diagnostic imaging consultant, and is also a staff clinician at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has held academic appointments at UCLA, where he was an Associate Professor of Radiology, and at Georgetown University, where he was Director of the MR Center. He has also served as the Director of MRI at the Magnusson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Yao is widely published in the fields of orthopedic imaging and MRI, and collaborates with intramural researchers at NIH who study inflammatory myopathy, graft-versus-host disease, and ankylosing spondylitis. Dr. Yao is interested in strategies that improve the precision of imaging as applied to clinical studies.
Education
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Radiology, UCLA, 1991
Internship: Internal Medicine, Miriam Hospital, Brown University, 1986
Residency: Radiology, Albany Medical Center, 1990
Medical School: Brown University, 1985
BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Radiology — Diagnostic Radiology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Former Associate Professor at UCLA
Former Director of the MR Center at Georgetown University
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