Dr. Lolie Yu, Professor of Pediatrics serves as the Vice-chair of Clinical Research, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Director of HSCT Program, Hematology-Oncology/HSCT, Department of Pediatrics, LSUHSC School of Medicine – New Orleans.

Dr. Yu is a distinguished physician and academic leader with an impressive career spanning several decades. She began her medical education at the University of Santo Thomas College of Medicine and Surgery, earning her degree from 1975 to 1979. She then pursued a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health from 1981 to 1982. Dr. Yu completed her internship at Medical City General Hospital from 1979 to 1980 and her residency at Louisiana State University Affiliate, University Medical Center in Lafayette, LA, from 1982 to 1985. Her specialization in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology was further honed through a fellowship at Louisiana State University Medical Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, focusing on Bone Marrow Transplantation, from July 1985 to August 1988.

Throughout her career, Dr. Yu has received numerous accolades, including the Distinguished Woman Physician Award (1998-1999), the Spirit of Love Award sponsored by Ronald McDonald (2004), and the Spirit Award sponsored by the American Cancer Society (2010). In 2024, she was honored as a Master Pediatrician by the Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a member of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

Dr. Yu has significantly contributed to the academic and clinical fields, training over 30 pediatric hematology-oncology fellows and authoring over 100 publications, books, and chapters. She has delivered over 50 invited lectureships and seminars and secured over $5 million in research grant funding. Among her clinical achievements, she performed the first Cord Blood Transplant in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 1995, and in 2008, she conducted the first double cord transplant in Louisiana. She also performed the first Human Placenta-derived Stem Cell Transplant in combination with Cord Blood Transplant in the United States.

Under her leadership, the LSUHSC/Children's Hospital BMT program became an approved NMDP transplant center, the only one of its kind in Louisiana and Mississippi. Most notably, in 2008 to the present, the LSUHSC/Children’s Hospital BMT/HSCT program became FACT-accredited, the only Pediatric BMT/HSCT program to have this distinction in the state of Louisiana. In 2020, she led the certification of her program as a CAR T-cell site, the only one in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.

Dr. Yu has held numerous notable leadership positions, including Principal Investigator for the LSU CCOP/Manning Family Children’s Hospital COG Member Institution since 2004, Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at LSUHSC from 2007 to 2022, and Medical Director of the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory at Manning Family Children’s, New Orleans since 2001. She also serves as Vice-Chair of the COG NCORP committee in 2022 and on the CCDR Steering Committee for the Children’s Oncology Group since 2015.

Dr. Yu 's contributions to pediatric hematology-oncology and stem cell transplantation have profoundly impacted the field, making her a highly respected and influential figure in medicine.