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Justin C. Yeh, MD
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Co-Director, Heart Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Administrative Assistant: Kathy Russo
Justin Yeh is the chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine and co-director of the Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. His training includes medical school at Albany Medical College followed by a pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Orange County and subspecialty training at Children’s National Medical Center with fellowships in pediatric cardiology and critical care. He has over a decade of experience in pediatric cardiac critical care and his research interests include the use of ventricular assist devices to support children with advanced heart failure.
Yeh oversees the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at Children’s, which provides critical care to infants and children with congenital or acquired heart disease, as well as adults with congenital heart disease. In addition, Yeh also has oversight over 2 partner programs in Florida, St. Joseph’s Children's Hospital in Tampa and Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville. Children’s collaboration with these hospitals involves program development, as well as the delivery of both telemedicine and direct patient care services.
Professional and Scientific Society Memberships
- Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2007-Present
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, 2013-Present
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2013-Present
- Western Society of Pediatric Cardiology, 2016-Present
- Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium, 2017-Present
Education & Training
- BS, Biochemistry Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego, 1997
- MD, Medicine, Albany Medical College, 2001
- Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Orange County, 2001-2004
- Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 2004-2005
- Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Children's National Medical Center, 2005-2007
- Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care, Children's National Medical Center, 2007-2009
Selected Publications
Hollander SA, Bernstein D, Yeh J, Dao D, Sun HY, Rosenthal D. Outcomes of children following a first hospitalization for dilated cardiomyopathy. Circ Heart Fail. 2012; 5(4): 437-43.
*Participated in study design, performed manuscript review and edits, assisted in writing final manuscript
Gupta P, ChowV, Gossett JM, Yeh JC, Roth SJ. Incidence, predictors, and outcomes of extubation failure in children after orthotopic heart transplantation: a single-center experience. Pediatr Cardiol. 2015; 36(2):300-7.
*Participated in study design, performed manuscript review and edits
May LJ, Ploutz M, Hollander SA, Reinhartz O, Almond CS, Chen S, Maeda K, Kaufman BD, Yeh J, Rosenthal DN. A novel pediatric treatment intensity score: development and feasibility in heart failure patients with ventricular assist ofdevices. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015; 34(4): 509-15.
*Assisted in study design and the creation of the scoring tool with Dr. Rosenthal, performed manuscript review and edits, assisted in writing the final manuscript
Stein ML, Dao DT, Doan LN, Reinhartz O, Maeda K, Hollander SA, Yeh J, Kaufman BD, Almond CS, Rosenthal DN. Ventricular assist devices in a contemporary pediatric cohort: morbidity, functional recovery, and survival. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016 Jan;35(1):92-8.
*Participated in study design, performed manuscript review and edits, assisted in writing the final manuscript
Gupta P, Rettiganti M, Gossett JM, Yeh JC, Jeffries HE, Rice TB, Wetzel RC. Risk factors for mechanical ventilation and reintubation after pediatric heart surgery. JThorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 Feb; 151(2): 451-8.
*Participated in study design, performed manuscript review and edits
May LJ, Montez-Rath ME, Yeh J, Axelrod DM, Chen S, Maeda K, Almond CS, Rosenthal DN, Hollander SA, Sutherland SM.Impact of ventricular assist device placement on longitudinal renal function in children with end stage heart failure.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016 April; 35(4): 449-56.
*Participated in study design, performed manuscript review and edits, assisted in writing the final manuscript
Stein ML, Yeh J, Reinhartz O, Rosenthal DN, Kaufman BD, Almond CS,Hollander SA, Maeda K.HeartWare HVAD for biventricular support in children and adolescents: the Stanford experience. ASAIO J. 2016 Sep-Oct; 62(5): e46-51.
*Shared first author credit with Dr. Stein
