Michi Yukawa, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Yukawa is a graduate of Brown University School of Medicine, and she completed Internal Medicine residency at Miriam Hospital, one of the teaching hospital for Brown University. In addition, Dr. Yukawa holds a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She practiced primary care medicine in Boston before she participated in a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at University of Washington. Dr.Yukawa was a member of the faculty in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Washington from 2000-2010. Dr. Yukawa joined the Division of Geriatrics of UCSF in October 2010 as an Associate Professor. She is interested in teaching and improving the care of older adults particularly around nutrition and prevention of malnutrition and weight loss.

Clinical As Post Acute Medical Director at JHRC, Dr. Yukawa will provide physician leadership for implementing a new patient care partnership in which UCSF geriatricians provide the clinical care for patients discharged from UCSF Health to JHRC’s short-stay rehabilitation unit. She also will provide medical directorship for the entire 120-bed short-stay rehabilitation unit, known as the Friedman Pavilion. She will work with UCSF hospitalists and primary care to enhance the quality of the transition process for UCSF patients from hospital to JHRC and back to UCSF primary care and provide education for JHRC staff in geriatrics and quality indicators. She also will facilitate implementation science research into JHRC’s clinical environment, including integrating Geriatrics and Geriatric-Palliative Care fellows into research and quality improvement projects.

Research Dr. Yukawa’s research interests include improving nutrition, preventing weight loss and improving perioperative care of older adults. She conducted several clinical trials while she was at University of Washington and she hopes to collaborate with others to pursue her research interests at UCSF. Her educational interests revolve around chronic illness management of geriatric patients in various settings: outpatient, inpatient and skilled nursing facility. She leads the geriatric section of Life Cycle course to educate second year medical students about geriatric syndromes and management of older adults. In addition, she directs the fourth year medical student elective in geriatric medicine. She hopes to collaborate with educators within the Division of Geriatrics and other department to develop innovative methods to teach medical students, residents and geriatric fellows about management of geriatric patients.

• Awakening: The Unveiling of Historically Unaddressed Social Inequities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.
  Infectious disease clinics of North America 2022 Andrasik MP, Maunakea AK, Oseso L, Rodriguez-Diaz CE, Wallace S, Walters K, Yukawa M
• Fostering Interprofessional Geriatric Patient Care Skills for Health Professions Students Through a Nursing Facility-Based Immersion Rotation.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2020 Byerly LK, Floren LC, Yukawa M
• Getting outside the box: exploring role fluidity in interprofessional student groups through the lens of activity theory.
  Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice 2020 Byerly LK, Floren LC, Yukawa M, O'Brien BC
• A new Mentor Evaluation Tool: Evidence of validity.
  PloS one 2020 Yukawa M, Gansky SA, O'Sullivan P, Teherani A, Feldman MD
• Changing Spaces and Learning Environments to Improve Inpatient Interprofessional Education for Internal Medicine Residents.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Lo D, Zhang N, Eubank K, Harper GM, Yukawa M, O'Brien B
• Geriatric syndromes and geriatric assessment for the generalist.
  The Medical clinics of North America 2015 Carlson C, Merel SE, Yukawa M
• Nutrition Assessment.
  Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging 2015 Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, Michi Yukawa
• Nutrition at the End of Life.
  Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging 2015 Michi Yukawa, Christine Seel Ritchie
• Teaching geriatric fellows how to teach: a needs assessment targeting geriatrics fellowship program directors.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Rivera V, Yukawa M, Aronson L, Widera E
• Interprofessional Standardized Patient Exercise (ISPE): The Case of “Elsie Smith”.
  MedEdPORTAL 2013 Josette Rivera, Michi Yukawa, Susan Hyde, Amber Fitzsimmons, Janelle Christman, Alice Gahbauer, Alison Scheid, Maria Wamsley
• Evaluating the association of preoperative functional status and postoperative functional decline in older patients undergoing major surgery.
  The American surgeon 2012 Kwon S, Symons R, Yukawa M, Dasher N, Legner V, Flum DR
• Identification of radiation-induced expression changes in nonimmortalized human T cells.
  Radiation research 2010 Pogosova-Agadjanyan EL, Fan W, Georges GE, Schwartz JL, Kepler CM, Lee H, Suchanek AL, Cronk MR, Brumbaugh A, Engel JH, Yukawa M, Zhao LP, Heimfeld S, Stirewalt DL
• Circulating TNF alpha receptor levels identify older adults who fail to regain weight after acute weight loss.
  The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2010 Yukawa M, Brown-Chang J, Callahan HS, Spiekerman CF, Weigle DS
• Disseminating best practices for the educator's portfolio.
  Medical education 2009 Luks AM, Yukawa M, Emery H
• Erratum: Decreased IRF8 expression found in aging hematopoietic progenitor/stem cells.
  Leukemia 2009 D L Stirewalt, Y E Choi, N E Sharpless, E L Pogosova-Agadjanyan, M R Cronk, M Yukawa, E B Larson, B L Wood, F R Appelbaum, J P Radich, S Heimfeld
• Leptin levels recover normally in healthy older adults after acute diet-induced weight loss.
  The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2008 Yukawa M, Phelan EA, Callahan HS, Spiekerman CF, Abrass IB, Weigle DS
• Decreased IRF8 expression found in aging hematopoietic progenitor/stem cells.
  Leukemia 2008 Stirewalt DL, Choi YE, Sharpless NE, Pogosova-Agadjanyan EL, Cronk MR, Yukawa M, Larson EB, Wood BL, Appelbaum FR, Radich JP, Heimfeld S
• Peripheral ghrelin treatment stabilizes body weights of senescent male Brown Norway rats at baseline and after surgery.
  American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 2008 Yukawa M, Weigle DS, Davis CD, Marck BT, Wolden-Hanson T
• Modeling the impact of COPD on the brain.
  International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2008 Borson S, Scanlan J, Friedman S, Zuhr E, Fields J, Aylward E, Mahurin R, Richards T, Anzai Y, Yukawa M, Yeh S
• What is the Optimal Duration of Participation in a Community-Based Health Promotion Program for Older Adults?
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2008 Fitts SS, Won CW, Williams B, Snyder SJ, Yukawa M, Legner VJ, Logerfo JP, Phelan EA
• Reduced adipogenic gene expression in thigh adipose tissue precedes human immunodeficiency virus-associated lipoatrophy.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2007 Kratz M, Purnell JQ, Breen PA, Thomas KK, Utzschneider KM, Carr DB, Kahn SE, Hughes JP, Rutledge EA, Van Yserloo B, Yukawa M, Weigle DS
• Body mass index and C-reactive protein in the healthy Korean aged men.
  Journal of Korean medical science 2006 Won CW, Lee SW, Choi HR, Kim BS, Park HS, Yukawa M
• Effect of aging on the response of ghrelin to acute weight loss.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006 Yukawa M, Cummings DE, Matthys CC, Callahan HS, Frayo RS, Spiekerman CF, Weigle DS
• Effect of Exercise on Total and Intraabdominal Body Fat in Postmenopausal Women: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.
  Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey 2003 Melinda L. Irwin, Yutaka Yasui, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Deborah Bowen, Rebecca E. Rudolph, Robert S. Schwartz, Michi Yukawa, Erin Aiello, John D. Potter, Anne McTiernan
• Effect of exercise on total and intra-abdominal body fat in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.
  JAMA 2003 Irwin ML, Yasui Y, Ulrich CM, Bowen D, Rudolph RE, Schwartz RS, Yukawa M, Aiello E, Potter JD, McTiernan A
• Leptin levels are appropriate for body mass index in older men who experience involuntary weight loss.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Yukawa M, McCormick WC, Rajan S, Matsumoto AM, Wallace JI, Pearlman RA, Weigle DS
• Culture specific implications for decline in ADL and IADL.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000 Yukawa M, McCormick WC
• The epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Japanese and African-American populations: the search for etiological clues.
  Neurobiology of aging 2000 Shadlen MF, Larson EB, Yukawa M