Priscilla Yu, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Priscilla Yu graduated from UC Irvine School of Medicine in 2008. She then completed her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. After residency, she did her pediatric critical care fellowship at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA. During her critical care fellowship, given her interests in medical education, she also completed a medical education fellowship at the David Geffen School of Medicine. After her critical care fellowship, she completed a cardiac critical care fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 2016. She spends her clinical time in both the cardiac ICU and pediatric ICU.

Education

Medical School: University of California Irvine School of Medicine (2008)
Residency: Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (2011), Pediatrics
Fellowship: UCLA Medical Center Program (2015), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2016), Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

Research Interest

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Medical education
Simulation

Publications

The association between early arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide with neurologic outcomes after pediatric ECPR in children with cardiac disease: Yu P, Foster S, Zeida Haar L, Li X, Bhaskar P, Morriss M, Singh S, Burr T, Sirsi D, Raman L, Reeder R, Lasa JJ Resuscitation 2026 May 222
Impaired Cerebral Autoregulation in Children: Castillo-Pinto C, Yu P, Wainwright MS, Kirschen MP Pediatric Neurology 2025 Jun 167 9-16
Outcomes after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest: does quality of CPR matter?: Raymond TT, Yu P, Esangbedo I, Sweberg T, Lasa JJ, Zhang X, Griffis H, Nadkarni V Resuscitation 2025 Jun 211
Are chest compression quality metrics different in children with and without congenital heart disease? A report from the pediatric resuscitation quality collaborative: Author Collaboration ft, Yu P, Lasa JJ, Zhang X, Griffis H, Sweberg T, Esangbedo I, Ranganathan A, Nadkarni V, Raymond T Resuscitation Plus 2024 Dec 20
The association between early hypotension and neurologic outcome after pediatric cardiac ECPR in children with cardiac disease: Yu P, Foster S, Li X, Bhaskar P, Morriss MC, Singh S, Burr T, Sirsi D, Raman L, Lasa JJ Resuscitation Plus 2024 Dec 20
Ventricular Assist Device Training and Emergency Management Among Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Physicians – Multicenter Cross-Sectional Survey: Esangbedo ID, Yu P, Choudhury TA, Tume SC, Lasa JJ World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 2024 Mar 15 202-208
Cardiac arrest during endotracheal intubation of children with systolic dysfunction: Esangbedo ID, Yu P, Brandewie K, Ebraheem M, Rahman AF, Byrnes J Cardiology in the Young 2023 Apr 33 532-538
Predicting Cardiac Arrest in Children with Heart Disease: A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm: Yu P, Skinner M, Esangbedo I, Lasa JJ, Li X, Natarajan S, Raman L Journal of Clinical Medicine 2023 Apr 12
Paediatric In-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality and outcomes in children with CHD during nights and weekends: Yu P, Esangbedo I, Zhang X, Hanna R, Niles DE, Nadkarni V, Raymond T Cardiology in the Young 2023 Jan 33 42-51
Association of chest compression pause duration prior to E-CPR cannulation with cardiac arrest survival outcomes: Author Collaboration ft, Lauridsen KG, Lasa JJ, Raymond TT, Yu P, Niles D, Sutton RM, Morgan RW, Fran Hazinski M, Griffis H, Hanna R, Zhang X, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Abulebda K, Atkins D, Balikai S, Berg M, Berg R, Bhalala U, Braga MS, Buysse C, Cheng A, Christoff A, Corbett K, DeCaen A, Daniels K, deJong G, del Castillo J, Dewan M, Donoghue A, Esangbedo I, Flaherty M, Friess S, Gangadharan S, Gawronski O, Gilleland J, Gray J, Harvey H, Harwayne-Gidansky I, Haskell S, Hayes J, Heber K, Hunt B, Ikeyama T, Jani P, Kleinman M, Knight L, Kurosawa H, Lemoine T, Maa T Resuscitation 2022 Aug 177 85-92

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Society of Critical Care Medicine