Dr. Yu is a clinical oncology pharmacist employed at one of the nation's premiere comprehensive cancer centers. Yu's current specialization is in hematology oncology/bone marrow transplant. Yu mentors pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and new pharmacists on clinical oncology practices. Yu's past experience included a general pharmacy practice ...
more Dr. Yu is a clinical oncology pharmacist employed at one of the nation's premiere comprehensive cancer centers. Yu's current specialization is in hematology oncology/bone marrow transplant. Yu mentors pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and new pharmacists on clinical oncology practices. Yu's past experience included a general pharmacy practice residency and oncology specialty pharmacy residency working on research and teaching in an inpatient oncology setting.

Dr. Yu is a published clinical pharmacist with a drug side-effect research article in the Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology Journal, an oncology pharmacy practice article in the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice and a pending article on a chemotherapy agent. Yu is a consistent health content contributor to Livestrong.com using her extensive experience in the healthcare industry.

Dr. Yu is currently part-time while working on a Health Care Executive MBA. Yu's goal is to become a leader in providing clinical oncology service to patients, become a clinical professor at a local university institution, and make a postive impact to the patients that Yu serves.

Dr. Yu's passion has been educating healthcare providers on drug information and discharge medication counseling for her patients. Yu has a way in breaking down the medication procedures in such a way that the everyday patient will be able to follow. Yu wants to translate this passion for teaching and writing to educate the broader online community on medical and health topics.

When Dr. Yu is not working with patients, or studying, you will likely find Yu working on publishing online articles on. She has a dedicated passion towards educating and sharing her knowledge through online and offline mediums. Yu loves traveling and pleasuring the gastronomic senses through tasting global ethnic cuisines. Yu enjoys preparing home cooked meals, and the culinary cookbooks are slowly overtaking the bookshelves. Yu also enjoys working on do-it-yourself home improvement projects and is quite proud of a recent project that involved designing and building an outdoor fireplace for entertaining guests. It's now Yu's favorite part of the house, and the kitchen coming in at a close second.
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