Hsien-Yu Wang, MDiv, PhD, SOSc

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine

Medical Ethics
Social Justice

E-mail:Hsien-yu.Wang@stonybrookmedicine.edu 

Dr. Hsien-Yu Wang is a trained biomedical research scientist and former faculty member of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University in New York.  For three decades her research focus was cell signaling, the role of Wnts in development, and the molecular basis of human breast cancer.  In 2015, Dr. Wang left her position at Stony Brook University to train at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was awarded a Master of. Divinity degree in 2018 and later completed level 1, hospital-based chaplaincy training (Clinical Pastoral Education) at Mount Sinai Beth-Israel Medical Center in New York City.  Her field study and ecclesiastic internship were performed under the auspices of The Riverside Church in the City of New York. Her professional service was devoted to the Shelterless Program, to the Food Pantry for the Food Insecure, to the Ministry of Church Elderly, and to encouraging spiritual formation. In 2019, Dr. Wang was appointed Community Chaplain of The Riverside Church. In 2020, she became clergy, ordained in preaching the Word and administering the sacraments of Holy Communion and Baptism, United Church of Christ, New York Metro Association.  In 2021, she was elected to the Society of Ordained Scientist, North American Province, organized under the auspices of the Bishop of Manchester, Church of England. Since 2022, the Revd. Dr. Wang devotes her efforts to serving of the poor, teaching and research in spiritual formation as well as interrogating ethical challenges in everyday life in America.