Katherine Yun, MD MHS

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
APD, National Clinician Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, 10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Education:
BA (Molecular Biology)
Princeton University, 2000.
MD
Harvard Medical School, 2006.
MHS
Yale School of Medicine, 2011.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Dr. Yun received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2006 and completed her residency in pediatrics at Yale University in 2009. Between 2009-2011, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and earned her Masters in Health Sciences Research from the Yale University School of Medicine.

While at Yale, Dr. Yun was the supervising physician in the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric Refugee Clinic, a co-recipient of Connecticut’s Myra M. Oliver Award for going “above the call of duty” to help refugees and immigrants. At The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, she helps to supervise trainees through the Refugee Health Program. She believes that learning to work with families from many different regions, languages, and cultures prepares health professionals to provide compassionate, high-quality care for all of their patients.

Description of Research Expertise

Katherine Yun, MD, received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2006 and completed her residency in pediatrics at Yale University in 2009. Between 2009-2011, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and earned her Masters in Health Sciences Research from the Yale University. While at Yale, she was the supervising physician in the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric Refugee Clinic, a co-recipient of Connecticut’s Myra M. Oliver Award for going “above the call of duty” to help refugees and immigrants.

Dr. Yun is currently an associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, attending physician in the Division of General Pediatrics and the Refugee Health Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Director of the CHOP Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, and Co-director of the Short Course on Multilingual Approaches to Research (MARS). Her primary interest is refugee and immigrant health, specifically the well-being of children in immigrant families in the United States.

Dr. Yun's work has focused on access to care for children and families with limited English proficiency, community-based health care navigation, the prevalence of non-communicable conditions and insurance coverage among refugees in the US, use of clinical decision support to promote evidence-base, guideline-directed immigrant health care, and mitigation of COVID-19 in immigrant communities. She is concerned with equity in access to health care, documenting the impact of health policies on immigrant children and families, and training the next generation of pediatricians on multilingual child health research and practice.

Selected Publications

Scott KC, Taylor EM, Mamo B, Herr ND, Cronkright PJ, Yun K, Altshuler M, Shetty S: Hepatitis B screening and prevalence among resettled refugees—United States, 2006–2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 64(21): 570-573, Jun 2015.

Subedi P, Drezner KA, Dogbey MC, Newbern EC, Yun K, Scott KC, Garland JM, Altshuler MJ, Johnson CC: Evaluation of latent tuberculous infection and treatment completion for refugees in Philadelphia, PA, 2010–2012 International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 19(5): 565-569, May 2015.

Yun K, Mohamad Z, Kiss L, Annamalai A, Zimmerman C: History of persecution and health outcomes among U.S. refugees. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 18(1): 263-269, Feb 2016.

Subedi P, Li C, Gurung A, Bizune D, Dogbey MC, Johnson CC, Yun K: Mental Health First Aid training for the Bhutanese refugee community in the United States. International Journal of Mental Health Systems 9(1): 9-20, May 2015 Notes: mentee manuscript.

Yun K, Chesnokova A, Shults J, Pinto A, Rubin DM: Use of preventive dental care among Medicaid-enrolled, school-aged US children in immigrant and nonimmigrant families: trends in Pennsylvania from 2005 through 2010. American Journal of Public Health 104(12): 2400-2408, Dec 2014.

Yun K, Chesnokova A, Matone M, Luan X, Localio AR, Rubin DM : Effect of maternal-child home visitation on pregnancy spacing for first-time Latina mothers. American Journal of Public Health 104(S1): S152-158, Feb 2014.

Rosenthal MS, Barash J, Blackstock O, Ellis-West S, Filice C, Furie G, Greysen SR, Malone S, Tinney B, Yun K, Lucas GI: Building community capacity: sustaining the effects of multiple, two-year community-based participatory research projects. Progress in Community Health Partnerships 8(3): 365-374, Autumn 2014.

Yun K, Fuentes-Afflick E, Curry LA, Krumholz HM, Desai MM: Parental immigration status is associated with children's health care utilization: findings from the 2003 new immigrant survey of US legal permanent residents. Maternal and Child Health Journal 17(10): 1913-21, Dec 2013.

Yun K, Fuentes-Afflick E, Desai MM: Prevalence of chronic disease and insurance coverage among refugees in the United States. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 14(6): 933-40, Dec 2012.

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