Ms. Yuan is responsible for conceptualizing, designing and implementing evaluation and applied research studies for a broad range of health professionals’ education programs. She teaches project management and evaluation, quantitative methods and survey methods to international health professions educators. She leads complex statistical analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of results. She collaborates with and provides analytical support for the Senior Associates on FAIMER research studies. Shiyao also performs data visualization, develops dashboards, and delivers data in useful and appealing ways to internal and external users.
Ms. Yuan joined FAIMER in 2011 as a cross-cultural facilitator and has grown professionally since then. She holds a Master of Science in Education from University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in Business Analytics from Drexel University. In addition, she holds a FAIMER-Keele Certificate in Health Professions Education: Accreditation and Assessment and is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9.