Dr. Chin Yang has over 30 years of experience as a consulting microbiologist/mycologist. He has frequently been consulted by physicians, attorneys, public health officials, environmental consultants (from home inspectors, CIHs, PEs, architects, to building managers), and school administrators, staff and parents on various mold issues, from prevention, assessment, sampling and testing, to remediation. He has participated in many investigations of Legionnaires disease outbreaks in hospitals and health care facilities. He has conducted and offered training to infection control personnel of health care facilities on sampling and testing methods for infectious agents in special care units. He has frequently been consulted by hospital infection control professionals in handling and dealing with nosocomial infections by opportunistic fungi and Legionella bacteria.