Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, MD

Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
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About me

  • Assistant 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

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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.
Dr. McKinstry-Wu is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

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