Doctor's Bio
Dr. Yuko Nakajima, MD, is a board-certified emergency medicine and EMS physician who cares for patients at Grady and specializes in prehospital care, emergency response, and disaster medicine. Her work focuses on improving the care patients receive from the moment an emergency occurs through their arrival at the hospital.
Dr. Nakajima began her medical career as an anesthesiologist in Japan before completing her emergency medicine residency at Yale University and advanced fellowship training in EMS and Disaster Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is licensed to practice medicine in both the United States and Japan.
In addition to her work at Grady, Dr. Nakajima serves as a medical director for ambulance services in metro Atlanta and is President of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Japan. She has provided medical care and humanitarian support in crisis settings around the world, bringing extensive experience in emergency and disaster response to the patients and communities she serves.
Board Certifications
American Board of Emergency Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Sapporo Medical University
- Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital
Fellowships
University of California Medical Center (Davis)
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
OPEN 24 HOURS
Visiting hours are from 8 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. daily
Publications
- Nonhomologous tails direct heteroduplex rejection and mismatch correction during single-strand annealing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Sapède E, Sugawara N, Tyers RG, Nakajima Y, Afreen MF, Romero Escobar J, Haber JE
PLoS genetics. 2024;20(2):e1010527.
PMID: 38315739 - Cas9-mediated endogenous plasmid loss in Borrelia burgdorferi.
Takacs CN, Nakajima Y, Haber JE, Jacobs-Wagner C
PloS one. 2022;17(11):e0278151.
PMID: 36441794 - Trends in EMS-attended out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival, United States 2015-2019.
Odom E, Nakajima Y, Vellano K, Al-Araji R, Coleman King S, Zhang Z, Merritt R, McNally B
Resuscitation. 2022;
PMID: 35944819 - Willingness to consider alternatives to ambulance use among adult emergency department patients.
Lam SHF, Nakajima Y, Castillo EM, Brennan J, Vilke GM
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2020;38(5):1030-1033.
PMID: 31859199 - Retrospective cohort study of the efficacy and safety of dabigatran: real-life dabigatran use including very low-dose 75 mg twice daily administration.
Akagi Y, Chiba T, Uekusa S, Kato H, Yamamura S, Aoki Y, Enoki M, Ogawara Y, Kasahara T, Kimura Y, Shimizu T, Takeishi A, Nakajima Y, Kobayashi H, Sugi K
Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences. 2019;
PMID: 31388437 - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival in international airports.
Masterson S, McNally B, Cullinan J, Vellano K, Escutnaire J, Fitzpatrick D, Perkins GD, Koster RW, Nakajima Y, Pemberton K, Quinn M, Smith K, Jónsson BS, Strömsöe A, Tandan M, Vellinga A
Resuscitation. 2018;
PMID: 29550496 - Is There a Role for Intravenous Subdissociative-Dose Ketamine Administered as an Adjunct to Opioids or as a Single Agent for Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department?
Motov S, Rosenbaum S, Vilke GM, Nakajima Y
The Journal of emergency medicine. 2016;51(6):752-757.
PMID: 27693070 - [Survey of Dental Treatment Situation and Needs for Prostheses in Veterinary Practice].
Nakajima Y, Oki M, Sugimoto K, Suzuki T
Kokubyo Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Stomatological Society, Japan. 2016;83(1):34-41.
PMID: 27443071 - Chromosomes at loose ends.
Nakajima Y, Haber JE
Nature cell biology. 2016;18(3):257-9.
PMID: 26911910 - Editorial: Ambulance Diversion: the Con Perspective.
Nakajima Y, Vilke GM
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2015;33(6):818-9.
PMID: 25863653
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