# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuet-wai-kan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:57:50.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuet-wai-kan"
name: "Yuet Wai Kan"
slug: "yuet-wai-kan"
description: "Yuet Wai Kan, is a Chinese-American geneticist and hematologist. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former president of the American Society of Hematology."
tagline: "Hong Kong geneticist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.749317333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AE%80%E6%82%A6%E5%A8%81"
    title: "简悦威"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "يوت واي كان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuet_Wai_Kan"
    title: "Yuet Wai Kan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuet_Wai_Kan"
    title: "Yuet Wai Kan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuet_Wai_Kan"
    title: "Yuet Wai Kan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B0%A1%E6%82%A6%E5%A8%81"
    title: "簡悦威"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%AE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Кань Ютвай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2547334"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump