Julie Yabu, MD

Phone: 415.476.4567
Fax: 415.476.6682
E-mail: yabuj@surgery.ucsf.edu

College:	University of California, Berkeley
Medical School:	Baylor College of Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency:	Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Nephrology Fellowship:	University of Washington
Transplant Nephrology Fellowship:	University of California, Los Angeles

Interests

Clinical: Transplant nephrology.

Research: Transplant immunology, recurrent FSGS, integrins, clinical trials.

Scholarly and Creative Activities (selected)

Yabu JM, "A Lesson from the Heart" in American Dragons. L Yep, editor, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993, pp 161-6. Re-published in The Art of Life. C LaRocco, editor, South-Western Educational Publishing, 1998, pp 116-9; in Jamestown's Signature Reading. J Looye, editor, Jamestown Publishings, 2000, pp 136-45; in Visions. L Alexander, editor, Harcourt Achieve, 2006, pp 122-6.

Johnson AC, Yabu JM, Hanson S, Shah VO, Zager RA. Experimental glomerulopathy alters renal cortical cholesterol, SR-B1, ABCA1, and HMG CoA reductase expression, American Journal of Pathology. 162 (1): 283-91, 2003.

Ekwa-Ekoka C, Diaz GA, Carson C, Hasegawa T, Samudrala R, Lim K, Yabu JM, Levy B, Schnapp LM. Genomic organization and sequence variation of the human integrin subunit alpha8 gene (ITGA8), Matrix Biology. 23 (7): 487-96, 2004.

Yabu JM, Vincenti F. Novel immunosuppression: small molecules and biologics. Seminars in Nephrology. 27 (4): 479-86, 2007.

Yabu JM, Ho B, Scandling JD, Vincenti F. Rituximab failed to improve nephrotic syndrome in renal transplant patients with recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, American Journal of Transplantation. In press.

Pham PT, Yabu JM, Pham PC, Wilkinson A, "Renal Transplantation" in Current Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment in Nephrology and Hypertension. A. Nissenson, J. Berns, E. Lerma, editors, McGraw-Hill Professionals. In press.

For more publications (since 2002): PubMed for Yabu, Julie