Andrew Yu, M.D.

Program Director, Pediatric Residency

Associate Professor

Schools: Medical School
Departments: Pediatrics

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Biography

Dr. Andrew Yu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He devotes his clinical time as a Pediatric Hospitalist to the care of hospitalized children at the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and is passionate about providing high-quality, family-centered care.

Dr. Yu is highly invested in medical education and serves as the Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at UT Southwestern / Children’s Health. His areas of focus include bedside teaching, clinical reasoning, and skills development.

Dr. Yu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale University. He has experience in healthcare consulting. He received his M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School, where he also completed his pediatric residency and served as a Pediatric Chief Resident.

Education

Medical School: UT Southwestern Medical School (2014)
Residency: UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2017), Pediatrics
Chief Resident: UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2018), Pediatrics

Research Interest

Health Services Research
Medical Education

Publications

Trends in Fentanyl Poisoning and Management in Children’s Hospitals: Bohorquez J, Hall M, Yu A, Alammar N, Devlin G, Chaudhari PP, Gribbons M Hospital Pediatrics 2025 Nov 15 546-549
Heat-Related Illness Trends at a Pediatric Health Care System, 2012 to 2023: Merritt TA, Bhatia S, Solomon C, Yu A Academic Pediatrics 2025 Aug 25
Trends in Respiratory Pathogen Testing at US Children's Hospitals: Molloy MJ, Hall M, Markham JL, Cotter JM, McCoy E, Tchou MJ, Collins ME, Steiner MJ, Stephens JR, Yu AG, Ugalde IT, Morse RB, Goyal MK, House SA JAMA Network Open 2025 Mar 8
Hospital costs and reimbursement for short-stay inpatient versus observation status hospitalizations for children with medical complexity: Arar S, Hall M, Johnson K, Katragadda H, Martinez K, Dadwani A, Chen CN, Devarakonda A, Gribbons M, Challa L, Gupta AT, Patel A, Solomon C, Nunneley CE, Lee BC, Yu AG Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Nov 19 1010-1018
Outcomes associated with initial narrow-spectrum versus broad-spectrum antibiotics in children hospitalized with urinary tract infections: Markham JL, Burns A, Hall M, Molloy MJ, Stephens JR, McCoy E, Ugalde IT, Steiner MJ, Cotter JM, House SA, Collins ME, Yu AG, Tchou MJ, Shah SS Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Sep 19 777-786
Lower opportunity ZIP code is associated with worse outcomes after listing in pediatric heart transplantation: Kim HA, Yu AG, Kim NP, Iqbal MS, Butts R Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2024 Aug 43 1298-1307
Pharmacologic Restraint Use During Mental Health Admissions to Children’s Hospitals: Masserano B, Hall M, Wolf R, Diederich A, Gupta A, Yu AG, Johnson K, Mittal V Pediatrics 2024 Jan 153
Impact of anakinra use on clinical outcomes in children with moderate or severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study: Akkoyun EB, Most Z, Katragadda H, Yu A, Nassi L, Oakman N, Ginsburg S, Maamari M Pediatric Rheumatology 2023 Dec 21
Cachexia, chorea, and pain in chronic nonbacterial osteitis and inflammatory bowel disease: a case report: Agharokh L, Mamola K, Yu AG, Medina AL, Gurram B, Fuller J, Park JY, Chen W, Rajaram V, Hammer MR, Waugh JL Journal of Medical Case Reports 2023 Dec 17
National cross-sectional study on cost consciousness, cost accuracy, and national medical waste reduction initiative knowledge among pediatric hospitalists in the United States: Lee BC, Hall M, Agharokh L, Yu AG, Parikh K, Shah SS PloS one 2023 Apr 18

Honors & Awards

Advocacy Award
UT Southwestern Pediatric Residency Program (2016)
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
(2014)
Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas
Award for Excellence in Pediatric Medicine (2014)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Hospital Medicine
Association of Pediatric Program Directors
Texas Pediatric Society