 He is an elected Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.Yuan has served on many advisory committees and editorial boards, including Chair of the Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational Research study section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Chair of the Pulmonary Circulation Assembly of the American Thoracic Society.He is currently a regular member of the Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology study section of the NIH, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Pulmonary Circulation", and Associate Editor of the "American Journal of Physiology Cell Physiology"

He is the leading editor of a comprehensive reference book in the field of pulmonary circulation, "Textbook of Pulmonary Vascular Disease" (Springer, New York, NY, 2011) and an editor or co-editor of the following books