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Main Address
UCSF OB/GYN&RS Residency Program
490 10th Street
10th Floor, Box 0132
San Francisco, CA 94143
Location | Office Phone | Fax |
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Mission Bay | (415) 476 - 5192 | (415) 476 - 1811 |
Mount Zion | (415) 353 - 9240 | (415) 353 - 9509 |
San Francisco General Hospital | (628) 206 - 3061 | (628) 206 - 3112 |
Research/Clinical Interests: Social and reproductive rights and justice, AAPI health, medical anthropology, social determinants of care, medical education
Education/Training
Year |
Institution | Degree | Field of Study |
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current | University of California, San Francisco | Residency | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences |
2023 | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | MD | Medicine |
2021 - 2022 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | MPH | Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Methods for Public Health |
2015 | Yale University | BA | Anthropology |
Research & Professional Experience
Year | |
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2022 - 2023 | Osler Apprentice, Women’s Health Clerkship – JHUSOM |
2021 - 2022 | Co-Leader, Gynecology and Obstetrics Interest Group – JHUSOM |
2021 - 2023 | Research Coordinator - Johns Hopkins Department of GYN/OB, Division of Gynecologic Oncology |
2020 - 2023 | Research Co-Investigator, Dean’s Year of Research and Damewood Fellow – Johns Hopkins Department of GYN/OB, Division of Gynecologic Oncology |
2018 - 2023 | Social Determinants of Health Resource Guide, Co-Leader – JHUSOM Primary Care Leadership Track |
2022 | Teaching Assistant, "Methods for Assessing Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the US" – JHSPH Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, MD, United States of America |
2021 | Math Tutor – Baltimore Public Schools, Commodore John Rogers Elementary and Middle School |
2020 | Course Coordinator & Facilitator, "Medical Humanities & Social Medicine in the Context of COVID-19" – JHUSOM |
2019 - 2020 | Research Assistant – Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases |
2017 - 2018 | Operations Associate – Collective Health |
2016 - 2015 | Research Assistant – Yale University Department of Anthropology |
2014 - 2015 | Cheesemonger – Caseus New Haven |
Achievements & Recognition
Year | Major Honors |
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2023 | Primary Care Leadership Track, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
2022 | Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
2021 | TL1 Trainee, JHH Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, NIH Research Training |
2021 | Cynthia Maung Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
2020 | Dean’s Year of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
2020 | Damewood Research Fund, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics |
2020 | FASPE Medical Fellow, Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics |
2019 | Bright Idea Award, Annual Small Foods Party, American Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore, MD |
2015 | Williams Prize Award, Yale Council for East Asian Studies |
Poster Presentations
YU R, Page K. An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Patients' Waiting. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Medical Student Research Symposium/Baltimore, MD, USA. February 08, 2019.
Qin J, YU R, Christmas C. Desirability and Effectiveness of Anti-Racism Training for Medical Students. American Medical Association 2019 ChangeMedEd/Chicago, IL, USA. September 19, 2019
Goplerud D, YU R, Amundsen D, Early M, Yue S, Zufer I, Christmas C. Evaluation of a student-created social determinants of health curriculum. Society of General Internal Medicine 2020 Annual Meeting/Virtual (NA), UA, USA. May 07, 2020
YU R, Beavis AL, Visvanathan K, Christianson MS, Viswanathan AN, Stone RL. Characteristics associated with early guideline concordance for risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy. Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2022 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer/Phoenix, AZ, USA. March 18, 2021.
Rositch AF, Wethington SL, YU R, Nkwain A, Topel K, Beavis AL. Evaluation of social resource screening, and factors associated with needs and referral for resources in cancer care: The Resource EQuIP study. 15th American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved/Philadelphia, PA, USA. September 17, 2022.
Sao S, YU R, Barre-Quick M, Abboud S, Deshmukh S, Wang R, Coleman J. Through their eyes: Documenting access to sexual and reproductive healthcare among teens in Baltimore using photovoice. American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting/Boston, MA, USA. November 06, 2022.
Oral Presentations
YU R. In Fashion in vitro Fertilization: The Role of the State and IVF's Rise on Women's Experiences with Infertility in China. ChinaReproTech Conference at University of Cambridge/Cambridge, GBR. October 22, 2015.
YU R. Waiting for Doctor: Ethnography of Patients' Waiting for Appointments at an Infectious Disease Outpatient Clinic. Center for AIDS Research HIV Providers Meeting/Baltimore, MD, USA. December 07, 2018.
YU R, Beavis AL, Christianson MS, Visvanathan K, Viswanathan AN, Stone RL. Factors Associated with Fertility Counseling of Reproductive Age Women Presenting for Initial Gynecologic Oncology Consultation. Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists 2021 Annual Meeting (Virtual)/Virtual (NA), UA, USA. June 18, 2021.
YU R, Beavis AL, Christianson MS, Visvanathan K, Viswanathan AN, Stone RL. Factors Associated with Referral-Based Receipt of Fertility Consultation Among Reproductive Age Women with Pre-Invasive or Invasive Gynecologic Malignancies. Society for Reproductive Investigation 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting/Boston, MA, USA. July 08, 2021.
YU R. Cultural Considerations in Working with Asian Patients with Infertility. Jefferson Infertility Counseling Conference/Philadelphia, PA, USA. April 27, 2022
YU R. Inclusivity Keynote: Family Planning and Infertility in the Chinese Context. Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy/Nashville, TN, USA. November 03, 2022
Deshmukh S, Sao S, YU R, Coleman J. Attitudes towards intimate partner violence education among Baltimore City high school students. American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting/Boston, MA, USA. November 08, 2022
Sao S, YU R, Abboud S, Barre-Quick M, Deshmukh S, Wang R, Coleman J. Using technology to improve equity: Suggestions from youth to improve self-collect, mail-in STI testing in a high-STI prevalence area. American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting/Boston, MA, USA. November 08, 2022.
Publications
Soong C, Breur GA, Hannon RA, Kim SD, Salem AF, Wang G, YU R, Carriero NJ, Bjornson R, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS. Development of a novel method to create double-strand break repair fingerprints using next-generation sequencing. DNA Repair. 2015 Feb:26:44-53. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.12.002. Epub 2014 Dec 19. PMID: 25547252.
Davis JS, YU R, Banerjee M, Jiang Z, Menter DG, Guinney J, Morris J, Broom BM, Maru D, Manyam GC, Chang S, Kopetz S.. Distinct Patient and Tumor Characteristics of the Consensus Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer. Gastroenterology, 152(5), S880. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(17)33008-1
Raghav K, Loree JM, Morris JS, Overman MJ, YU R, Meric-Bernstam F, Menter D, Korphaisarn K, Kee B, Singh S, Routbort M, Chen K, Shaw KRM, Katkhud, R, Shanmugam K, Maru D, Fakih M, Kopetz S. Validation of HER2 amplification as a predictive biomarker for anti–epidermal growth factor receptor antibody therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology Precision Oncology, 2019 Dec:3:1-13. doi: 10.1200/PO.18.00226. PMID: 35100667.
Inhorn MC, YU R, Patrizio P. Upholding Success: Asian Americans, Egg Freezing, and the Fertility Paradox. Med Anthropol. 2021 Jan;40(1):3-19. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1825415. Epub 2020 Oct 19. PMID: 33074721
Inhorn MC, Birenbaum-Carmeli D, YU R, Patrizio P. Egg Freezing at the End of Romance: A Technology of Hope, Despair, and Repair. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 47(1), 53-84. 2021, Feb. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243921995892
Dugan K, YU R, Xing D, Ronnett B, Asaka S, Wethington S, Fader A, Beavis A, Ferriss J, Baras A, Stone R. Hot or not: defining trophoblast PD-L1 expression and lymphohistiocytic density in gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. Gynecologic Oncology. Volume 162, Supplement 1, August 2021, Pages S171-S172
YU R, Christianson MS, Beavis AL, Stone RL. Likelihood of live birth following fertility preserving treatment among reproductive-age women diagnosed with gynecologic malignancies or pre-malignancies. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 6(Suppl 1), 40. 2022 April. PMC9209084
YU R, Matthews BJ, Beavis AL. The Role of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in High-grade Endometrial Cancer. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2022 Oct;23(10):1339-1352. doi: 10.1007/s11864-022-00999-5. Epub 2022 Aug 18. PMID: 35980519.
Sao SS, Barre-Quick M, YU R, Abboud S, Coleman JS. Advancing Access to Care through Digital Health: Perspectives from Youth on a Novel Platform to Increase Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Education for Adolescents and Young Adults. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2023 Oct;36(5):449-454. doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2023.04.002. Epub 2023 Apr 19. PMID: 37084876.
Sao SS, YU R, Barre-Quick M, Abboud S, Deshmukh S, Wang R, Coleman JS. Through Their Eyes: Youth Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Barriers and Facilitators in Baltimore, Maryland. J Adolesc Health. 2023 Jun 30:S1054-139X(23)00260-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.05.001. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37395698.
Advocacy
The Violet Project/Violet Voices, Youth Community Advisory Board Education and Research Intern - 2021-2023
Alpha Omega Alpha Recognition Workgroup, Committee Member - 2021
International Rescue Committee, Youth Mentor - 2021
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Medical Student Senate - 2020-2021