Dr. Yu joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. She grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, and completed both undergraduate studies, medical education, and residency training in the Midwest. She attended college at Washington University in St. Louis and graduated cum laude in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Biomedical Engineering. After college, she attended medical school at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and received her medical degree in 2021. She was inducted into the Carver Humanism Honor Society in 2020. She then completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 2021 to 2024. Her wide range of exposure and her various experiences during residency training pushed her interest toward hospital medicine, and she decided to pursue a career as an academic hospitalist.
Education
- B.S., Biomedical Engineering: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2017)
- Doctor of Medicine: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa (2021)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa (2024)
Clinical Interests
Hospital medicine, inpatient care
Publications
Yamanashi T, Saito T, Yu T, Alario A, Comp K, Crutchley KJ, Sullivan EJ, Anderson ZM, Marra PS,
Chang G, Wahba NE, Jellison SS, Meyer AA, Mathur S, Pandharipande P, Yoshino A, Kaneko K, Lee S, Toda H, Iwata M, Shinozaki G. DNA methylation in the TNF-alpha gene decreases along with aging among delirium inpatients. Neurobiol Aging. 2021 Sep; 105:310-317. doi:
10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.05.005. Epub 2021 May 21. PMID: 34192631.
Saito T, Toda H, Duncan GN, Jellison SS, Yu T, Klisares MJ, Daniel S, Andreasen A, Leyden L, Hellman M, Shinozaki E, Lee S, Yoshino A, Cho HR, Shinozaki G, Epigenetics of neuroinflammation: Immune response, inflammatory response and cholinergic synaptic involvement evidenced by genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of delirious inpatients, Journal of Psychiatric Research (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.06.005