Research Interests

Ischemic cerebrovascular diseases; Revascularization; Pediatric moyamoya disease

Background

Dr. Ma Yan graduated with the medical doctor degree of clinical medicine and neurosurgery in Peking Union Medical College in 2005. In 2012, she served in neurosurgical department in University of Illinois Chicago as the visiting scholar. Now she is the attending surgeon of XuanWu Hospital. She has 15 years of experiences in diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical diseases especially for ischemic cerebrovascular diseases. She is the PI of “Carotid artery and Middle cerebral artery Occlusion Surgery Study (CMOSS registration at Clinical Trials )” – subtopic of “The national twelfth five-year science and technology support program”. In 2016, she was assigned as the director of Yasargil Microsurgical Training Center. Her clinical focus is micro-neurosurgical skill in carotid endarterectomy and EC-IC bypass. 

Education

MD, Peking Union Medical College of Physicians and Surgeons (2005)

Residency

XuanWu Hospital of Capital Medical University (2010)

Fellowship

XuanWu Hospital of Capital Medical University (2012)

Neurosurgical department in University of Illinois Chicago (2012)

Certifications

Committee member of Neurosurgical Association of Chinese Medical Association (2015)

Committee member of Neurointerventional Association of Chinese Medical Association (2018)

Research & Publications

1. Ma Y, Yang B, Lu X, Gao P, Jiao L, Ling F. Safety and Blood-Flow Outcomes for Hybrid Recanalization in Symptomatic Refractory Long-Segmental Vertebral Artery Occlusion-Results of a Pilot Study. Front Neurol. 2020 May 12;11:387.

2. Ma Y, Yang B, Jiao L. Teaching NeuroImages: Pathology and thromboembolism of carotid web. Neurology. 2020 Feb 18;94(7):e762-e763.

3. Yang B, Ma Y, Wang T, Chen Y, Wang Y, Zhao Z, Chen D, Wang J, Xu X, Luo T, Hua Y, Ling F, Qureshi AI, Hong B, Jiao L; RECAS Trial Investigators. Carotid Endarterectomy and Stenting in a Chinese Population: Safety Outcome of the Revascularization of Extracranial Carotid Artery Stenosis Trial. Transl Stroke Res. 2020 Jul 19

4. Ma Y, Yang F, Jiao L, Li M, Wang Y, Chen Y, Ling F. Superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass surgery for refractory symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis. World Neurosurg. 2017 Aug;104:74-81

5. Ma Y et al. The carotid and middle cerebral artery occlusion surgery study (CMOSS): a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2016 Nov 16;17(1):544

6. Ma Y, Li M, Jiao L, Zhang H, Ling F. Contralateral cerebral hemodynamic changes after unilateral direct revascularization in patients with moyamoya disease. Neurosurg Rev, 2011, 34: 347–354.

7. Ma Y, Li M, Zhang H, Ling F. A 10-year follow-up of extracranial-intracranial bypass for the treatment of bilateral giant internal carotid artery aneurysms in a patient with fibromuscular dysplasia: case report. Acta Neurochir (Wien), 2010, 152 (12): 2191-2195

Memberships

1. Committee member of Neurosurgical Association of Chinese Medical Association

2. Committee member of Neurointerventional Association of Chinese Medical Association

3. Executive member of China Women in Neurosurgery Alliance