Young Yoon graduated from a seven-year BS/MD program based in City College of New York. He went on to receive his medical degree from SUNY – Stony Brook School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center, NY. Jacobi serves as a Level I Trauma Center with hyperbaric, snake bite and burn centers and an annual ED census of 135,000.
Dr. Yoon’s first position as an attending ED physician was at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY. There, the medicine residents honored him as “Teaching Attending of the Year” for 1997. He then moved from Mt. Sinai to Jersey City Medical Center, NJ as Associate Director of their Emergency Department in 1999. While he was employed at JCMC, the census increased from 48,000 to 60,000 within one year and they were awarded the Compass Award from Press Ganey. He has filled the position of Associate Director for both Palisades Medical Center, NJ and Bayonne Medical Center, NJ.
In 2010, Dr. Yoon was the Pegasus team member who started up the Emergency Department at Meadowlands Hospital. Dr. Yoon has served as medical director at the Meadowlands Emergency Department since this start-up, and under his leadership, Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores dramatically increased from below 25 percentile to 80 percentile.
Dr. Yoon has been with the Pegasus Emergency Group, PA since 2005, and served as Medical Director of Meadowlands Hospital Emergency Department from 2010-2013.