JohnKunshengYueMD

Neurosurgery • San Francisco, CA

Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, Neurotrauma, Neurocritical Care

Resident Physician

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Office
1001 Potrero Avenue
Building 1 Room 101
San Francisco, CA 94110

Summary

Dr. John K. Yue received his M.D. from University of California, San Francisco in 2018 and is a Chief Resident (PGY-7) in the UCSF Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Yue's interests and expertise span 15 years of focused efforts in neurotrauma, neurocritical care, intracranial neurophysiology, blood-based diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, prognostic modeling, and health disparities. Dr. Yue serves on the leadership cores of the U.S. Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Initiative. Dr. Yue received grant funding from the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (2022-23) to develop machine learning approaches and harmonize large neurotrauma datasets to improve prognostication of traumatic brain injury outcomes. Dr. Yue has co-authored over 200 publications and received national recognition for his work in neurotrauma by the AANS and CNS as the Natus Award recipient (2021, 2023, 2024), the Marmarou Award from the National Neurotrauma Society (2024), and many others. Dr. Yue is a committee member of NINDS efforts to improve TBI clinical classification systems, and serves on the Editorial Board for several trauma and brain injury journals.

Education & Training

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Neurological Surgery, 2018 - 2025
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2018, MD
University of California, BerkeleyBA, Molecular and Cell Biology, 2005 - 2009

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2019 - 2025

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Anthony Marmarou Award - Clinical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury National Neurotrauma Society, 2024
AANS/CNS Cranial Trauma Top Abstract Award National Neurotrauma Society, 2024
Natus Resident/Fellow Award in Neurotrauma/Neurocritical Care American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2024
CNS Natus Resident/Fellow Award in Neurotrauma and Critical Care Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2023
Resident Abstract Award California Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2023
NREF & Bagan Family Foundation Research Fellowship Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation
Invited Speaker: "Updates in Acute Pediatric TBI” East Bay Trauma Symposium, 2022
Best Oral Abstract Award International Brain Injury Association, 2022
Best Operative Technique Poster - Pediatrics Section Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2022
Invited Speaker: "The Future of Genetics in Predicting TBI Risk and Outcome" National Neurotrauma Symposium, 2021
CNS Natus Resident/Fellow Award - Traumatic Brain Injury Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2021
AANS Annual Meeting: Plenary Sessions in Neurotrauma American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2021
Best Clinical Research Award in Neurotrauma Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2020
Best Junior Translational Research Paper UCSF Department of Neurosurgery, 2020
Top 1% Cross-Field Peer Reviewer Publons, Clarivate Analytics, 2019
Top Scoring Abstract North American Brain Injury Society, 2018
AANS/CNS Trauma/Critical Care Abstract Finalist National Neurotrauma Symposium, 2018
Top 20 Trainee Abstract Finalist (2 awards) International Neurotrauma Symposium, 2018
Cover Article - "Critical Care" Neurosurgical Focus, Vol. 43, Issue 5, 2017
AANS/CNS Trauma and Critical Care Abstract Finalist National Neurotrauma Symposium, 2017
AANS/CNS Trauma/Critical Care Abstract Finalist (2 awards) National Neurotrauma Symposium, 2016
Regents and Chancellor's Scholarship University of California Berkeley, 2005-2009
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Clinical Trials

Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI Pilot Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
Completed
Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury Start of enrollment: 2014 Mar 02
Completed

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Effect of blood alcohol on the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein and ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 for traumatic intracranial hemorrhage...
Mark Harris, John K Yue, Sonia Jain, Xiaoying Sun, Ava M Puccio
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2025-02-18
Profound Neuropathy after Penetrating Transection of the Sciatic Nerve by Femoral Cerclage Wire: Illustrative Case and Management Strategy.
John K Yue, Jun Yeop Oh, Alexander A Aabedi, Jia-Shu Chen, Kenneth X Probst
Neurotrauma Reports. 2025-01-01
The correlation of neurosurgery motor examinations with ISNCSCI motor examinations in patients with spinal cord injury: a multicenter TRACK-SCI study.
Austin Lui, Phillip A Bonney, John Burke, John H Kanter, John K Yue
Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2025-01-01

Books/Book Chapters

Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter: Chapter 6: Neuroradiological Imaging for Traumatic Brain Injury
Page 75 - 84Hansen Deng, John K Yue, David O OkonkwoEditors: Etrusca Brogi, Federico Coccolini, Eric J. Ley, Alex Valadka.Springer, Cham, Switzerland2024
Youmans and Winn Neurological Surgery
Chapter: Chapter 377: Genetics of Traumatic Brain Injury
Page 2916 - 2924John K Yue, Dario J Englot, Ethan A Winkler, Geoffrey T ManleyEditors: H. Richard Winn.ElsevierEdition 8,2022
Biomarkers For Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter: 1 - Introduction - Scope of the Problem
Page 3 - 8Okonkwo DO, Yue JKEditors: Alan H. B. Wu, W. Frank Peacock.Academic PressEdition 1,2020
Neurotrauma: A Comprehensive Book on Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter: 8 - The TRACK-TBI Approach: Redefining Severity and Outcome Assessments
Page 81 - 100Yue JK, Winkler EA, Deng H, Markowitz AJ, Wang KKW, Manley GTEditors: Kevin K. W. Wang.Oxford University PressEdition 1,2019
Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery
Chapter: 41 - Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury
Page 483 - 496Yue JK, Deng H, Winkler EA, Burke JF, Suen CG, Manley GTEditors: Ramez W. Kirollos, Adel Helmy, Simon Thomson, Peter J. Hutchinson.Oxford University PressEdition 1,2019
Youmans and Winn Neurological Surgery
Chapter: 340 - Genetics of Traumatic Brain Injury
Page 2779 - 2785Englot DJ, Freeze BS, Winkler EA, Yue JK, Mukherjee P, Manley GTEditors: H. Richard Winn.ElsevierEdition 7,2017
Benzel's Spine Surgery
Chapter: 143 - Polytrauma Patient
Page 1257 - 1262Yue JK, Winkler EA, Chan AK, Birk H, Duarte SM, Dhall SSEditors: Edward C. Benzel, Michael Steinmetz.ElsevierEdition 4,2017
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Press Mentions

Neurobiology of Brain Injury Seminar: Updates in Blood-Based and Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Acute Traumatic Brain InjuryJanuary 12th, 2023
Extended Hospital Stays After Traumatic Brain Injury Linked to Low Socioeconomic Status, Medicaid InsuranceNovember 15th, 2022
Simple Blood Test Identifies Concussions Absent on CT ScansSeptember 10th, 2019
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Grant Support

Improving Traumatic Brain Injury Stratification and Prognosis Through Big Data Harmonization and Machine LearningNeurosurgery Research and Education Foundation and Bagan Family Foundation2022–2023

Committees

Clinical Working Group Key Member, NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Workshop 2024 - Present
Resident Fellow, Board of Directors, California Association of Neurological Surgeons 2023 - Present
Associate Editor, Neurotrauma Section, Frontiers in Neurology (Journal) 2022 - Present
Editorial Board, Neurosurgery Section, Frontiers in Surgery (Journal) 2022 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Trauma Care (Journal) 2020 - Present

Professional Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons - AANS
Member
Congress of Neurological Surgeons - CNS
Member
Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
Affiliate Faculty
National Neurotrauma Society
Member