Dr. Hoi-Ying (Elsie) Yu

HOI-YING (ELSIE) YU, Ph.D, DABCC
Associate Director, Clinical Chemistry

100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822-0131
1 800 695 6491

Dr. Yu is an Associate of Geisinger Medical Laboratories at Geisinger Medical Center, where she serves as the Director for Toxicology and Point-of-Care Testing and the Associate Director of the Chemistry Laboratories.

Education:

Dr. Yu received her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and completed a Clinical Chemistry fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.

Professional Affiliations:

American Association of Clinical Chemistry

Research Interests:

Clinical chemistry and point-of-care testing.

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

Yu HE, Hawash K, Picker J, Stoler J, Urion D, Wu BL & Shen Y. A recurrent 1.71Mb genomic imbalance at 2q13 increases the risk of developmental delay and dysmorphism. Clin Genet doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01637.x. , 2011.

Yu HE, Agus M, Kellogg MD. Clinical utility of Abbott Precision Xceed Pro ketone meter in diabetic patients. Pediatric Diabetes 12. 649-655, 2011.

Yu HE, O’Brien JJ, Magnani BJ.  Conflicting calcium concentrations in the presence of low albumin post bone marrow transplant.  Clin Chem.  56 1777, 2010.

Yu HE. Cyberintrusion – happening much closer to you than you might think!  Clin Chem. 56 1647, 2010

Woolf AD, Law T, Yu HE, Woolf N & Kellogg M.Lead poisoning from use of bronze drinking vessels during the late Chinese Shang dynasty: an in vitro experiment.  Clin Tox; 48: 757-61, 2010.

Yu HE, Law T. Unexpectedly high TSH – another case of heterophile antibody?  Clin Chem. 2010;56: 1203.

Yu HE, Kellogg MD. Hyperkalemia or Hypokalemia?  Clin Chem ;55:2068, 2009.

Yu HE, Bement WM. Multiple myosins are required to coordinate actin assembly with coat compression during compensatory endocytosis.  Mol Biol Cell; 18:4096-4105, 2007.

Yu HE, Bement WM. Control of local actin assembly by membrane fusion-dependent compartment mixing. Nat Cell Biol ;9:149-59, 2007.

Abstracts, Posters, and Other Presentations:

Yu HE. Therapeutic drug monitoring for patients on high dose methotrexate therapy – What if leucovorin does not rescue?  Speaker. Pathology Conference at Tufts Medical Center, March 2010.

Yu HE.  Evaluation of clinical performance of Abbott Precision Xceed Pro ketone meter. Speaker. Pathology Conference at Tufts Medical Center, March 2010.

Yu HE. Effectiveness of bicarbonate treatment for severe acidosis.  Speaker.  2009 National Lab Week at Children's Hospital Boston, April 2009.

Yu HE.  Control of formin activities in cytokinesis by the Cdc15/PCH homologue Hof1. Speaker.  2008 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 2008.

Yu HE.  Diacylglycerol incorporation upon compartment mixing acts as an upstream signal for actin assembly during compensatory endocytosis in Xenopus eggs. Speaker.  American Society for Cell Biology 45th Annual Meeting, December 2005.

Textbook Chapters:

Yu HE. Opioids 2: The Synthetic Opioids. In Clinical Toxicology Testing: A Guide for Laboratory Professionals. Magnani BJ, Bissell M, Kwong T, Wu A, eds. CAP Press, Northfield, IL, 2012, 149-156.

Yu HE, Magnani BJ. Over-the-counter Analgesics. In Clinical Toxicology Testing: A Guide for Laboratory Professionals. Magnani BJ, Bissell M, Kwong T, Wu A, eds. CAP Press, Northfield, IL, 2012, 179-187.