Dr. Yan Li earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. She received her master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Zhejiang University, China, in 2000. Dr. Li is currently an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at OHSU Casey Eye Institute.

Dr. Li's research interests include medical image processing, optical coherence tomography for imaging the corneal and anterior segment of the eye, planning refractive surgeries, automated anterior chamber cell counting in uveitis grading, mechanism of angle-closure glaucoma, and guiding the treatment of anterior eye diseases with optical coherence tomography.