Yvonne Wu, MD, MPH

Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics
M_Neurology

Dr. Yvonne Wu is a child neurologist and epidemiologist with expertise in newborn brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP). After obtaining a BS from Yale and an MD from Harvard Medical School, she completed her Child Neurology Residency training at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and obtained a MPH in Epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley. The goal of Dr. Wu's research is to develop new strategies to prevent CP. Her research has been funded by NIH, Thrasher Research Fund, CP Alliance, CP International Research Foundation and others. Dr. Wu has been the recipient of several teaching awards at UCSF. She is on the Editorial Boards of Pediatric Neurology and Journal of Child Neurology, and served as an elected Council Member for the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Wu has published over 77 papers, including in high impact journals such as JAMA, NEJM, and Pediatrics. She authors UpToDate chapters on hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and has written several review chapters on perinatal stroke and cerebral palsy. Dr. Dr. Wu has studied erythropoietin as a novel neuroprotective therapy for newborn infants with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. She was the PI of NEAT and NEAT O (Phase I and Phase II studies), and is currently the PI of a large NIH-funded multi-center Phase III clinical trial (HEAL) studying erythropoietin in this population (www.heal-trial.org).

Publications

Genetic and Congenital Anomalies in Infants With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.

Pediatric neurology

Morell AS, Monsell SE, Cornet MC, Wisnowski JL, McKinstry RC, Mathur AM, Li Y, Glass HC, Gonzalez FF, Mayock DE, Benninger KL, Van Meurs KP, Lampland AL, Wu TW, Riley D, Mietzsch U, Chalak L, Flibotte J, Weitkamp JH, Ahmad KA, Yanowitz TD, Baserga M, Merhar S, Rao R, Sokol GM, Comstock BA, Heagerty PJ, Juul SE, Wu YW

Trial of Erythropoietin for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in Newborns.

The New England journal of medicine

Wu YW, Comstock BA, Gonzalez FF, Mayock DE, Goodman AM, Maitre NL, Chang T, Van Meurs KP, Lampland AL, Bendel-Stenzel E, Mathur AM, Wu TW, Riley D, Mietzsch U, Chalak L, Flibotte J, Weitkamp JH, Ahmad KA, Yanowitz TD, Baserga M, Poindexter BB, Rogers EE, Lowe JR, Kuban KCK, O'Shea TM, Wisnowski JL, McKinstry RC, Bluml S, Bonifacio S, Benninger KL, Rao R, Smyser CD, Sokol GM, Merhar S, Schreiber MD, Glass HC, Heagerty PJ, Juul SE, HEAL Consortium

Parental Enrollment Decision-making for a Neonatal Clinical Trial.

The Journal of pediatrics

Weiss EM, Guttmann KF, Olszewski AE, Magnus BE, Li S, Kim SY, Shah AR, Juul SE, Wu YW, Ahmad KA, Bendel-Stenzel E, Isaza NA, Lampland AL, Mathur AM, Rao R, Riley D, Russell DG, Salih ZNI, Torr CB, Weitkamp JH, Anani UE, Chang T, Dudley J, Flibotte J, Havrilla EM, O'Kane AC, Perez K, Stanley BJ, Shah SK, Wilfond BS

Integrating neuroimaging biomarkers into the multicentre, high-dose erythropoietin for asphyxia and encephalopathy (HEAL) trial: rationale, protocol and harmonisation.

BMJ open

Wisnowski JL, Bluml S, Panigrahy A, Mathur AM, Berman J, Chen PK, Dix J, Flynn T, Fricke S, Friedman SD, Head HW, Ho CY, Kline-Fath B, Oveson M, Patterson R, Pruthi S, Rollins N, Ramos YM, Rampton J, Rusin J, Shaw DW, Smith M, Tkach J, Vasanawala S, Vossough A, Whitehead MT, Xu D, Yeom K, Comstock B, Heagerty PJ, Juul SE, Wu YW, McKinstry RC, HEAL Study Group

Risk factors associated with cerebral palsy in preterm infants.

The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians

Sukhov A, Wu Y, Xing G, Smith LH, Gilbert WM

Reply.

Annals of neurology

Yvonne W. Wu, Lisa A. Croen

Patterns of Brain Injury in Term Neonatal Encephalopathy.

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey

Steven P. Miller, Vijay Ramaswamy, David Michelson, A James Barkovich, Barbara Holshouser, Nathaniel Wycliffe, David V. Gudden, Douglas Deming, Colin Partridge, Yvonne W. Wu, Stephen Ashwal, Donna M. Ferrero