Rose Yeung Laiwah

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Email: ryeung@ualberta.ca

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Area of Study / Keywords

Type 1 Diabetes insulin Faster-acting Insulin Aspart Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Gestational Diabetes Co-creation patient education participatory based research

About

Yeung is an endocrinologist and completed her clinical training at the University of British Columbia. She spent two years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Clinical Investigator Fellow examining the epidemiology of Asian diabetes, while also completing her Master’s in Public Health at Harvard University.Now in Alberta, Dr. Yeung has joined the Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes, and is collaborating with Dr. Padma Kaul, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, who is the principal investigator of a Canadian Institutes of Health project examining the downstream effects of gestational diabetes on both mothers and children.

Research

improving diabetes care delivery with peer support, community health improved educational resources
developing clinical electronic registry tools to further clinical care and health services research
improving outcomes for those with type 1 diabetes
impact and treatment of young-onset type 2 diabetes
interventions for preventing and reducing the burden of gestational diabetes
the impact of ethnicity on diabetes
personalized medicine

Featured Publications

Underuse of cardiorenal protective agents in high-risk diabetes patients in primary care: a cross-sectional study

Hao R., Myroniuk T., McGuckin T., Manca D., Campbell-Scherer D., Lau D., Yeung R.O.

BMC Primary Care. 2022 December; 23 (1) 10.1186/s12875-022-01731-w

Understanding the bigger picture: syndemic interactions of the immigrant and refugee context with the lived experience of diabetes and obesity

Ofosu N.N., Luig T., Chiu Y., Mumtaz N., Yeung R.O., Lee K.K., Wang N., Omar N., Yip L., Aleba S., Maragang K., Ali M., Dormitorio I., Campbell-Scherer D.

BMC Public Health. 2022 December; 22 (1) 10.1186/s12889-021-12305-3

Disparities in adherence to diabetes screening guidelines among males and females in a universal care setting: A population-based study of 1,380,697 adults

Kaul P., Chu L.M., Dover D.C., Yeung R.O., Eurich D.T., Butalia S.

Lancet- The Americas. 2022 October; 14 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100320

Association between maternal glucose and large for gestational outcomes: Real-world evidence to support Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (HAPO) study findings

Kaul P., Savu A., Yeung R.O., Ryan E.A.

Diabetic Medicine. 2022 June; 39 (6) 10.1111/dme.14786

Enhancing Diabetes Surveillance Across Alberta by Adding Laboratory and Pharmacy Data to the National Diabetes Surveillance System Methods

Mathe N., Ryan A., Cook A., Sargious P., Senior P., Johnson J.A., Yeung R.O.

Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 2022 June; 46 (4):375-380 10.1016/j.jcjd.2021.12.001

Adrenal Insufficiency: Investigating Prevalence and Healthcare Utilization Using Administrative Data

Sekhon S.S., Crick K., Myroniuk T.W., Hamming K.S.C., Ghosh M., Campbell-Scherer D., Yeung R.O.

Journal of the Endocrine Society. 2022 April; 6 (4) 10.1210/jendso/bvab184

Evaluating virtual and in-person delivery methods in a quality improvement workshop for healthcare professionals.

Canadian Medical Education Journal,. 2022 March; 10.36834/cmej.v13i2

Understanding challenges of using routinely collected health data to address clinical care gaps: A case study in Alberta, Canada

McGuckin T., Crick K., Myroniuk T.W., Setchell B., Yeung R.O., Campbell-Scherer D.

BMJ Open Quality. 2022 January; 11 (1) 10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001491

New Diabetes Guidelines: Impact on Eligibility for Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Canada

Bodoarca R., Yeung R.O., Lau D.

Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.jcjd.2022.04.004

Starting the process of quality improvement in Edmonton’s tertiary diabetes clinics: Getting our data ducks in a row

Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 2021 November;

Utilizing the Strengths of Quantitative Ethnography in Patient and Clinician Led Research to Understand Type 1 Diabetes Lived Experiences in Alberta.

International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2021 Conference Proceedings Supplement. Springer; 2021.. 2021 November;

Using the Edmonton Obesity Staging System in the real world: a feasibility study based on cross-sectional data

Swaleh R., McGuckin T., Myroniuk T.W., Manca D., Lee K., Sharma A.M., Campbell-Scherer D., Yeung R.O.

CMAJ open. 2021 October; 9 (4):E1141-E1148 10.9778/cmajo.20200231