Dr. Yu is Director of Surgical Pathology at Magee-Womens Hospital and Medical Director of UPMC Anisa I. Kanbour Laboratory – Clinical Placement Location of Diagnostic Cytology Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Clinical Expertise
- Breast Pathology
- Gynecologic Pathology
- Cytopathology
Education & Training
MD - summa cum laude, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China
Residency - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Fellowship – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Research Interests
- Identifying novel diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers in breast and gynecologic carcinomas and correlating them with clinical outcomes
- Clinical trials in breast carcinomas
- Female adnexal brushing cytology
- Cervicovaginal Pap test
Representative Publications
View Dr. Yu's publications on PubMed
- Dai W, Navolotskaia O, Fine JL, Harinath L, Motanagh SA, Villatoro TM, Bhargava R, Clark BZ, Yu J. Not All HER2-Positive Breast Cancers Are the Same: Intratumoral Heterogeneity, Low-Level HER2 Amplification, and Their Impact on Neoadjuvant Therapy Response. Mod Pathol. 2025 Jul;38(7):100785. doi: 10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100785. Epub 2025 Apr 29. PMID: 40311762.
- Yu J, da Silva EM, La HS, Clark BZ, Fine JL, Carter GJ, Villatoro TM, Soong TR, Lee AV, Oesterreich S, Basili T, Blanco-Heredia J, Selenica P, Ye Q, Da Cruz Paula A, Dopeso H, Gazzo A, Marra A, Pareja F, Reis-Filho JS, Bhargava R. Clinicopathologic and genomic features of lobular like invasive mammary carcinoma: is it a distinct entity? NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 Jul 13;9(1):60. doi: 10.1038/s41523-023-00566-7. PMID: 37443169; PMCID: PMC10345141.
- Jones TE, Onisko A, Austin RM, Yu J. Change of Practice Patterns Following an Educational Comment on Reports of Benign-Appearing Endometrial Cells in Papanicolaou Tests. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Mar 3;157(3):413-416. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqab134. PMID: 34528660.
- Yu J, Onisko A, Austin RM. Negative Predictive Value and Significance of Benign-Appearing Endometrial Cells in Papanicolaou Tests. Am J Clin Pathol. 2017 Sep 1;148(3):274-279. doi: 10.1093/AJCP/AQX075. PMID: 28821196.
- Yu J, Dabbs DJ, Shuai Y, Niemeier LA, Bhargava R. Classical-type invasive lobular carcinoma with HER2 overexpression: clinical, histologic, and hormone receptor characteristics. Am J Clin Pathol. 2011 Jul;136(1):88-97. doi: 10.1309/AJCP7URIW0QETTAT. PMID: 21685036.