Grace Peace Yu, M.D., MSc

Selected Honors and Awards

• America's Top Physicians (2012)
• America's Top Physicians (2011)
• Compassionate Doctor Award (2010)
• Patient's Choice Award (2010)
• America's Top Physicians (2010)
• Patient's Choice Award (2009)
• National Institutes of Health Fellowship Award (2009-2010)
• Children's Health Research Institute Gallo Fellowship Award (2009-2010)
• Patient's Choice Award (2008)
• Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection Award (2008)
• Stanford Aronstam Fellow in Child Health (2007-2008)
• American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Scholarship(2006)
• American Academy of Pediatrics Research Grant (2006)
• Stanford University Medical Scholars Research Grant (2005)
• Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship (1998)
• Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society (1997)
• Stanford University Frederic King Scholarship for Academic Excellence (1994)
• Stanford University Presidential Award for Academic Excellence (1994)

Publications

• The Safety of Peanut Oral Immunotherapy in Peanut Allergic Subjects in a Single Center Trial. Yu GP, Weldon B, Neale-May S, Nadeau KC. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2012;159(2):179-82.
• Genotype, phenotype, and outcomes of nine patients with T-B+NK+ SCID. Yu GP, Nadeau KC, Berk DR, de Saint Basile G, Lambert N, Knapnougel P, Roberts J, Kavanau K, Dunn E, Stiehm ER, Lewis DB, Umetsu DT, Puck JM, Cowan MJ. Pediatr Transplant. 2011 Nov;15(7):733-41
• Basophil CD203c levels are increased at baseline and can be used to monitor omalizumab treatment in subjects with nut allergy. Gernez Y, Tirouvanziam R, Yu G, Ghosn EE, Reshamwala N, Nguyen T, Tsai M, Galli SJ, Herzenberg LA, Herzenberg LA, Nadeau KC. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2011; 154 (4): 318-27
• Cold Urticaria Yu GP, Wanderer AA, Mahmoudi M. Challenging Cases in Allergic and Immunologic Diseases of the Skin. 2010: 25-44
• Omalizumab in Peanut-allergic Patients Reduces Free IgE to Peanut and Skin Prick Tests to Peanut. Yu GP, Tuano KS, Hamilton RG, Nadeau KC. J Allergy Clin Immunol.. 2010; 125 (2): AB2
• Ertapenem-induced DRESS syndrome in a female patient. Yu GP, Gelman M, Suh G, Ho D, Singh U, Schoolnik GK, Blackburn B, Nadeau KC.. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.. 2009; 103 (5): A80-81
• Regulatory T cell dysfunction in subjects with common variable immunodeficiency complicated by autoimmune disease. Yu GP, Chiang D, Song SJ, Hoyte EG, Huang J, Vanishsarn C, Nadeau KC. Clin Immunol. 2009; 131 (2): 240-53
• Study of Sublingual Immunotherapy in Subjects with Dust Mite and Timothy Grass allergies. Reshamwala N, Song SJ, Yu GP, Swami R, Berquist S, Nguyen T, Hoyte EG, Vissamsetti S, Sivagnanasundaram A, Saper V, Hwang P, Moss RB, Nadeau KC.. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009; 123 (2): S126
• Focus on FOCIS: the continuing diagnostic challenge of autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease. Yu G, Hong DK, Dionis KY, Rae J, Heyworth PG, Curnutte JT, Lewis DB. Clin Immunol. 2008; 128 (2): 117-26

My philosophy of care follows the golden rule: I want to provide the type of care that I would want for my loved ones and myself. I love practicing medicine and greatly value being able to provide outstanding care for my patients at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.