Diana H Yu, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She is the Program Director of the UCSF Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Program. She previously served as the Director of Interventional Pulmonology (IP) Research and Associate Program Director of IP Fellowship at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. She was also on the faculty at the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the Stanford University of Medicine.

She completed her Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Residency at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine.

Her areas of clinical expertise include minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic and pleural procedures, complex pleural diseases, and lung transplant airway complications. She has sub-specialty training in rigid bronchoscopy, tumor ablative therapies (argon plasma coagulation, laser therapy, electrocautery, and cryotherapy), tracheal/bronchial stent placement, airway balloon dilation, percutaneous tracheostomy, endobronchial valve insertion, radial/linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy, indwelling pleural catheter placement, thoracostomy tube insertion, medical thoracoscopy, and whole lung lavage.

Her research interests include clinical research studies evaluating non-invasive bronchoscopic approach to treating chronic bronchitis and lung cancer, and translational research to elucidate the mechanism of post-transplant bronchial stenosis and vasculitis-associated tracheobronchial stenosis.

She is a member of the American Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians, American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, and Association of Interventional Pulmonology Program Directors.

• Medicine Morning Report Subspecialties, 1st Edition, Dasgupta R, Li S, Wong D, Shan HY (Ed)
  Lung Nodule 2022 Ko J, Li S, Dasgupta R, Yu, DH
• Medicine Morning Report Subspecialties, 1st Edition, Dasgupta R, Li S, Wong D, Shan HY (Ed)
  Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 2022 Nallappa S, li S, Dasgupta R, Yu, DH
• A Direct Comparative Study of Bronchoscopic Navigation Planning Platforms for Peripheral Lung Navigation: The ATLAS Study.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2021 Akulian JA, Molena D, Wahidi MM, Chen A, Yu D, Maldonado F, Lee H, Vachani A, Yarmus L, Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group (IPOG)
• Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Prospective External and Temporal Validation of the HAL and HOMER Models.
  Chest 2021 Martinez-Zayas G, Almeida FA, Yarmus L, Steinfort D, Lazarus DR, Simoff MJ, Saettele T, Murgu S, Dammad T, Duong DK, Mudambi L, Filner JJ, Molina S, Aravena C, Thiboutot J, Bonney A, Rueda AM, Debiane…
• Cognitive Load in Electromagnetic Navigational and Robotic Bronchoscopy for Pulmonary Nodules.
  ATS scholar 2020 Kapp CM, Akulian JA, Yu DH, Chen A, Cárdenas-García J, Molena D, Vachani A, Wahidi MM, Maldonado F, Fielding D, Yarmus LB, Lee H
• Sex differences in M2 polarization, chemokine and IL-4 receptors in monocytes and macrophages from asthmatics.
  Cellular immunology 2020 Becerra-Díaz M, Lerner AD, Yu DH, Thiboutot JP, Liu MC, Yarmus LB, Bose S, Heller NM
• Atypical Blastomycosis Masquerading as Löfgren Syndrome.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Shaller BD, Chen SB, Ho DY, Yu DH
• Impact of Video Game Cross-Training on Learning Bronchoscopy. A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
  ATS scholar 2020 Mallow C, Shafiq M, Thiboutot J, Yu DH, Batra H, Lunz D, Feller-Kopman DJ, Yarmus LB, Lee HJ
• Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transtracheal cardiac plexus neuromodulation for refractory ventricular tachycardia.
  HeartRhythm case reports 2020 Yu DH, Assis FR, Lerner AD, Tandri H, Lee H
• Assessment of Ergonomic Strain and Positioning During Bronchoscopic Procedures: A Feasibility Study.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2020 Gilbert CR, Thiboutot J, Mallow C, Chen A, Pastis NJ, Argento AC, Millar J, Lavin RA, Lerner AD, Yu DH, Salwen B, Lunz D, Lee HJ, Yarmus LB
• Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, 7th Edition
  Chapter 71: Tracheobronchial Endoscopy 2020 Yu, DH, Feller-Kopman, D
• A Prospective Randomized Comparative Study of Three Guided Bronchoscopic Approaches for Investigating Pulmonary Nodules: The PRECISION-1 Study.
  Chest 2019 Yarmus L, Akulian J, Wahidi M, Chen A, Steltz JP, Solomon SL, Yu D, Maldonado F, Cardenas-Garcia J, Molena D, Lee H, Vachani A, Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group (IPOG)
• Minimally invasive transtracheal cardiac plexus block for sympathetic neuromodulation.
  Heart rhythm 2018 Assis FR, Yu DH, Zhou X, Sidhu S, Bapna A, Engelman ZJ, Misra S, Okada DR, Chrispin J, Berger R, Mandal K, Lee H, Tandri H
• Interventional bronchoscopy in adults.
  Expert review of respiratory medicine 2018 Yu DH, Feller-Kopman D
• Airway stent complications: the role of follow-up bronchoscopy as a surveillance method.
  Journal of thoracic disease 2017 Lee HJ, Labaki W, Yu DH, Salwen B, Gilbert C, Schneider ALC, Ortiz R, Feller-Kopman D, Arias S, Yarmus L
• American Thoracic Society (ATS) Review for the Pulmonary Boards, Le T, Khosa S, Pasnick S, Wang T (Ed)
  Chapters 2: Critical Care 2015 Arrendondo, AF, Clough, SY, Nadig, NR, Yu, DH
• American Thoracic Society (ATS) Review for the Pulmonary Boards, Le T, Khosa S, Pasnick S, Wang T (Ed)
  Chapter 5: Quality, Safety and Ethics” 2015 Yu, DH
• Recent Advances in the Pathogenesis, Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes and its Complications, Zimering MB (Ed)
  Implications of Type II Diabetes Mellitus on Gastrointestinal Cancers 2011 Yu, DH, Jamal, MM
• Effects of decreased insulin-like growth factor-1 stimulation on hypoxia inducible factor 1-alpha protein synthesis and function during cutaneous repair in diabetic mice.
  Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society 2007 Yu DH, Mace KA, Hansen SL, Boudreau N, Young DM
• Sustained expression of Hif-1alpha in the diabetic environment promotes angiogenesis and cutaneous wound repair.
  Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society 2007 Mace KA, Yu DH, Paydar KZ, Boudreau N, Young DM