Homer Yang

Dr. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, University of Ottawa. Since Sep 2012, he is the Director of Professionalism in the Faculty of Medicine. Between 2003 and 2013, he was the Professor and Chair at the Department of Anesthesia, University of Ottawa; he was also the Head of Anesthesiology at the Ottawa Hospital, overseeing the Civic Campus, General Campus, Riverside Campus, and the Ottawa Heart Institute.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Ottawa, he was the Chair of Anesthesia at McMaster University between 1997 and 2003.

He was the Chair of the Anesthesia Examination Board at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada between 1996 and 2001. During that tenure, he reformatted the traditional oral examinations to multi-stationed structured oral examinations, demonstrating their validity and reliability as high stake competency assessments. The oral and written examinations were re-structured into a “Combined Objective Examinations”, first demonstrating the use of a compensatory grid system. He has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards as well as a recipient of the Mentor of the Year Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.