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Karin Wu, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	4150 Clement Street, #0 San Francisco CA 94121
Phone	415-353-8946
Email	[email protected]
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Biography

education and training

University of California, Berkeley	B.S.	Bioengineering
Keck School of Medicine of USC	M.D.	Medicine
University of Southern California/LAC+USC	Internship and Residency	Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco	Fellowship	Endocrinology and Metabolism
San Francisco VA Health Care System	Fellowship	Women's Health

Overview

overview

Dr. Karin Wu is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Her work centers on improving care for patients with osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Her research uses both clinical and translational methods to understand the interactions between nutrition, the gut microbiome, and skeletal health, and to create new approaches for fracture prevention.

Bibliographic

selected publications

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Skeletal Effects of Sleeve Gastrectomy, by Sex and Menopausal Status and Compared to Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Jul 15; 110(8):e2654-e2665. Wu KC, Wu PH, Kazakia G, Patel S, Black DM, Lang TF, Kim TY, King NJ, Hoffmann TJ, Chang H, Linfield G, Palilla S, Rogers SJ, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL. PMID: 39602818; PMCID: PMC12261100.

View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
Why Do Residents Discontinue Metformin on Admission? Exploring a Contestable Standard of Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jan 22. Boctor D, Wu K, Dhaliwal G. PMID: 39843674.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Int Internal Medicine
Skeletal effects of sleeve gastrectomy, by sex and menopausal status and in comparison to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. medRxiv. 2024 Jun 25. Wu KC, Wu PH, Kazakia G, Patel S, Black DM, Lang TF, Kim TY, King NJ, Hoffman TJ, Chang H, Linfield G, Palilla S, Rogers SJ, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL. PMID: 38978665; PMCID: PMC11230331.

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Alteration in the gut microbiome is associated with changes in bone metabolism after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. J Bone Miner Res. 2024 Mar 22; 39(2):95-105. Wu KC, McCauley KE, Lynch SV, Nayak RR, King NJ, Patel S, Kim TY, Condra K, Fadrosh D, Nguyen D, Lin DL, Lynch K, Rogers SJ, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Stewart L, Schafer AL. PMID: 38477719; PMCID: PMC11240164.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields:
Met Metabolism Ort Orthopedics
Translation:Humans
Intestinal Calcium Absorption Decreases After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Despite Optimization of Vitamin D Status. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 01 17; 108(2):351-360. Wu KC, Cao S, Weaver CM, King NJ, Patel S, Kim TY, Black DM, Kingman H, Shafer MM, Rogers SJ, Stewart L, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL. PMID: 36196648; PMCID: PMC10091486.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 11 Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
Virtual Endocrinology Care Emphasizing Data-Driven Insights and Continuous Engagement and Its Impact on Glycemic Outcomes in Patients With Uncontrolled Diabetes: A Real-world Retrospective Case Series. JMIR Diabetes. 2022 Mar 24; 7(1):e30626. Wu CC, Wu KC, José AS, Novin N. PMID: 35323114; PMCID: PMC8990370.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2
Prebiotic to Improve Calcium Absorption in Postmenopausal Women After Gastric Bypass: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 03 24; 107(4):1053-1064. Wu KC, Cao S, Weaver CM, King NJ, Patel S, Kingman H, Sellmeyer DE, McCauley K, Li D, Lynch SV, Kim TY, Black DM, Shafer MM, Özçam M, Lin DL, Rogers SJ, Stewart L, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL. PMID: 34888663; PMCID: PMC8947782.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 8 Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
A Perspective on Postmenopausal Bone Loss with Aging. J Bone Miner Res. 2022 02; 37(2):171-172. Wu KC, Black DM. PMID: 34985153.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields:
Met Metabolism Ort Orthopedics
Translation:Humans
Hyperlactatemia in diabetic ketoacidosis. Diabet Med. 2022 04; 39(4):e14723. Masharani U, Strycker LA, Lazar AA, Wu K, Brooks GA. PMID: 34655270.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 5 Fields:
End Endocrinology
Translation:Humans
FSH Level and Changes in Bone Mass and Body Composition in Older Women and Men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 09 27; 106(10):2876-2889. Wu KC, Ewing SK, Li X, Sigurðsson S, Guðnason V, Kado DM, Hue TF, Woods GN, Veldhuis-Vlug AG, Vittinghoff E, Zaidi M, Rosen CJ, Lang T, Kim TY, Schwartz AV, Schafer AL. PMID: 34212197; PMCID: PMC8475206.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 11 Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
Current Radiology Reports. Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. 2021; 9(6). Wu, K., Ozomaro, U., Flavell, R., Pampaloni, M., Liu, C.
Ectopic Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma of the Nasopharynx Diagnosed by Gallium 68 DOTATATE Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography. World Neurosurg. 2019 05; 125:400-404. Kim S, Dillon WP, Hope TA, El-Sayed IH, van Zante A, Wu K, Masharani U. PMID: 30797906.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 10 Fields:
Neu Neurosurgery
Translation:Humans
D-dimer as an applicable test for detection of posttraumatic deep vein thrombosis in lower limb fracture. Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ). 2012 Jun; 41(6):E78-80. Bakhshi H, Alavi-Moghaddam M, Wu KC, Imami M, Banasiri M. PMID: 22837995.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Ort Orthopedics
Translation:Humans
Radial stretch reveals distinct populations of mechanosensitive mammalian somatosensory neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 16; 105(50):20015-20. Bhattacharya MR, Bautista DM, Wu K, Haeberle H, Lumpkin EA, Julius D. PMID: 19060212; PMCID: PMC2604979.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 43 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells