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Dr. Hong Yu
She could see from her research activities and her internal medicine experience that geriatricians are in short supply. “The elderly need caring, patient people [to care for them clinically],” Dr. Yu says. “With age, people have some cognitive and physical failings. It’s hard for them to respond to doctors’ questions in a quick way. You have to interview them patiently so they feel being respected and understood.” Last updated 8/15/2007. |
From southeastern China, Dr. Hong Yu came to the Southeast United States for her three-year residency in Internal Medicine at East Carolina School of Medicine (a University of North Carolina campus) at Greenville. Dr. Yu attended five years of medical school at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, near Shanghai, and trained for a year in geriatrics. She practiced cardiology in China before moving to the United States to do cardiovascular research at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. From Detroit, she moved to Greenville for her residency and in 2006 began her fellowship at UNC’s Division of Geriatric Medicine.