Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Columbia University
- Residency: NYU Langone/Bellevue Hospital Center
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Anesthesiology, 2013
- American Society of Anesthesiologists, National
- Association of University Anesthesiologists, National
- Early Stage Anesthesiology Scholars, International
- IARS, International
- Society for Neuroscience, International
- Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Max Kelz Reanimation of Rodents: An Animal Model for Cognitive Recovery from Anaesthesia , British Journal of Anaesthesia, 135(4): 2025,847-850
Panagiotis Fotiadis, Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, Sarah M. Weinstein, Philip A. Cook, Mark Elliott, Matthew Cieslak, Jeffrey T. Duda, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Russell T. Shinohara, Alexander Proekt, Max B. Kelz, John A. Detre, Dani S. Bassett Changes in brain connectivity and neurovascular dynamics during dexmedetomidine-induced loss of consciousness , Communications Biology, 8(1254): 2025
Diego G Dávila, Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt The administration of ketamine is associated with dose-dependent stabilization of cortical dynamics in humans , J Neurosci , 45(20): 2025,e1545242025
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz Responsiveness at Steady-State Xenon is Consolidated and Varies Over Time in Humans , Association of University Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting: 2025
J Soohoo, A Mandel, A McKinstry-Wu MAC Redefined: Individual Stochastic Fluctuations in Response to Noxious Stimuli at Population EC50 in Mice , International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting: 2025
Panagiotis Fotiadis, Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, Sarah M. Weinstein, Philip A. Cook, Mark Elliott, Matthew Cieslak, Jeffrey T. Duda, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Russell T. Shinohara, Alexander Proekt, Max B. Kelz, John A. Detre, Dani S. Bassett Changes in brain connectivity and neurovascular dynamics during dexmedetomidine-induced loss of consciousness , BioRxiv: 2024
Sophia Koutsogiannaki, Panop Limratana, Weiming Bu, Wiriya Maisat, Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Xiaohui Han, Umeharu Ohto, Roderic G Eckenhoff, Sulpicio G Soriano, Koichi Yuki Dexmedetomidine directly binds to and inhibits Toll-like receptor 4 , International Immunopharmacology: 2024
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, C. Will Carspecken, David Camacho, Woo Byun, George Mashour, Michael Avidan, John Woo, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz Evidence for Anesthetic Hysteresis in Humans , Association of University Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting: 2024
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Max Kelz One node among many: sevoflurane-induced hypnosis and the challenge of an integrative network-level view of anaesthetic action , British Journal of Anaesthesia, 132(2): 2024,220-223
Wasilczuk AZ, Rinehart C, Aggarwal A, Stone ME, Mashour GA, Avidan MS, Kelz MB, Proekt A; ReCCognition Study Group. Hormonal basis of sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A , 121(3): 2024