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Jaime Yu

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Pronouns: she/her

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
jcy@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 735-7905
Address
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
10230 111 Avenue
Edmonton AB
T5G 0B7

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Stroke Spasticity Medical Education


About

Dr. Jaime Yu joined the University of Alberta, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in July 2016. She completed her medical training at the University of Calgary, graduating with her MD in 2005 and completing residency training in 2010. She completed her Master of Education in Health Sciences Education in 2019 at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Yu started her career as a community physiatrist in Kelowna, BC, with a busy general physiatry practice, seeing patients across the spectrum of neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Currently, her clinical work is based at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, AB, and is focused in stroke rehabilitation and spasticity management. 

Her academic work has focused primarily in medical education in the areas of curriculum development; equity, diversity and inclusion; and Indigenous health. She is also engaged in clinical research in spasticity management and stroke rehabilitation. She has held several educational leadership roles with the U of A, including Competence Committee Chair for the PM&R Residency Program and Preclerkship Director for the undergraduate MD Program. She is the current lead of the Canadian Comprehensive Review Course (CCRC) in PM&R course planning committee. She has been a member of the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation board of directors since 2018, and President from 2022-2024. She is an associate editor for the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation



Featured Publications

Eric Bhatti, Deena M Hamza, Jaime C Yu

Academic Medicine. 2026 July; 10.1093/acamed/wvag034


Taylor Orchard, Alexa Hryniuk, Everett Claridge, Steve Mann, Jaime C. Yu, Jason Peeler

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2026 March; 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002986


Mikayla L. Sonnleitner, Eli M. Snyder, Franchesca A. Johnson, Ho Hyun Lee, Kelli A. Kokame, Jennifer M. Wong, Jaime C. Yu, Richard T. Kasuya, Damon Lee, Henry L. Lew

Hawai‘i Journal of Health & Social Welfare. 2025 August; 10.62547/MLTR2588


Noor Al Kaabi, Sue Rim Baek, Odile Huynh, Emmie Lamy, Frédérique Leroux, Jasmine Memar Vaghri, Fatima Saleem, Morgan Wokes, Abdollah Behzadi, Carolyn Lai, Steve Mann, Giuseppe Retrosi, Erica Patocskai, Jaime Yu, Geoffrey Blair

Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2025 April; 10.1503/cjs.014124


Lalith Satkunam, Sean P. Dukelow, Jaime Yu, Stephen McNeil, Huong Luu, Karen J.B. Martins, Khanh Vu, Phuong Uyen Nguyen, Lawrence Richer, Tyler Williamson, Scott W. Klarenbach

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 2025 January; 10.1017/cjn.2024.42


Thomas Soroski, Kuda Hove, Lisa Steblecki, Jaime C. Yu

Medical Education Online. 2024 December; 10.1080/10872981.2024.2331852


Lalith Satkunam, Sean P. Dukelow, Jaime C. Yu, Stephen McNeil, Huong Luu, Karen J.B. Martins, Khanh Vu, Phuong Uyen Nguyen, Lawrence Richer, Tyler Williamson, Scott W. Klarenbach

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 2024 November; 10.1017/cjn.2024.342


Jason Peeler, Steve Mann, Taylor Orchard, Jaime Yu

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2024 January; 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002425


Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Arif Onan, Jaime C. Yu, Victor Do

Learning Environments Research. 2023 December; 10.1007/s10984-023-09485-7


Henry L. Lew, Jaime Yu, Dylan Combs, David X. Cifu

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2023 November; 10.1097/phm.0000000000002365


Andy Le, Lalith Satkunam, Jaime C. Yu

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2023 May; 10.1097/phm.0000000000002284


Arjun Singh Ghuman, Pamela Mathura, Jaime C Yu

BMJ Open Quality. 2022 November; 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002052


Kelly R, Leung G, Lindstrom H, Wunder S, Yu JC

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2021 December; 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001942


Yousuf Y., Yu J.C.

Medical Science Educator. 2021 November; 32 (1):27-30 10.1007/s40670-021-01473-x


Yu J.C., Rashid M., Davila-Cervantes A., Hodgson C.S.

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE. 2021 August; 34 (2):123-134 10.1080/10401334.2021.1954930


Alycia N Amatto, Michael D Amatto, Jaime C Yu

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 2021 January; 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000842


Amatto M.D., Rambaransingh B., Yu J.C.

PM&R: The Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation. 2021 January; 10.1002/pmrj.12527


Ives CT, Kutcher J, Yu JC

Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. 2021 January; 45 (4):229-238 None


Jaime C. Yu, Qi Guo, Carol S. Hodgson

MedEdPORTAL. 2020 September; 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10945


Jaime C. Yu, McKyla McIntyre, Heather Dow, Lawrence Robinson, Paul Winston

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2020 January; 99 (9):775-782 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001516


Jaime C. Yu, Kenneth Lam, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Maoliosa Donald, Sean Dukelow

PM&R: The Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation. 2010 January; 2 (10):926-934 10.1016/J.PMRJ.2010.06.005


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