Penn Medicine Provider
Anesthesiology
Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Call 800-789-7366

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Columbia University
  • Residency: New York University - Bellevue Hospital
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

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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

My research

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 : 2025

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

Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz Individual Responsiveness is Both Consolidated and Varies Over Time in Humans at Constant Inhaled Xenon Concentration , Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Evolutionary Biology Gordon Research Conference: 2025

Andrew McKinstry-Wu, Max Kelz Reanimation of Rodents: An Animal Model for Cognitive Recovery from Anaesthesia , British Journal of Anaesthesia: 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

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

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: 2023