Branch Perinatal Laboratory

Physicians and Staff

Branch D. Ware Branch, MD - Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UUHSC, is serving as Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. An internationally recognized authority in the areas of the antiphosphilipid syndrome, thrombotic disorders in pregnancy, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Dr. Branch holds the H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Chair at the UUHSC. Dr. Branch and his Maternal-Fetal Medicine colleagues maintain an active research group focusing on the complications of early pregnancy. Dr. Branch is also serving as the Program Director for the Utah WRHR Program (Women's Reproductive Health and Education Research), as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the LDS Hospital and as Medical Director of Women's and Newborn's Services for the Urban Central Region of Intermountain Healthcare.

YuHuixia Yu, MD - Research Specialist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah for the past 19 years. Dr. Yu is involved in laboratory research, performing, writing, and reporting activities, and supervising student's research projects related to varous studies on some disorders in the obstetrics and gynecologic field. During her most recent years, Dr. Yu has been engaged in B2 glycoprotein I (B2 GPI) IgG, IgA determination for use as an aid in diagnosis of certain autoimmune disease thrombotic disorders.