Hung Luu, M.D., Pharm.D

Biography

Hung Luu, M.D., Pharm.D., is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in clinical pathology and the diagnosis of hematologic cancers. He holds the L. Ruth Guy, Ph.D., Professorship in Medical Laboratory Science.

Dr. Luu earned his medical degree at Oregon Health & Science University and a doctoral degree in pharmacy at Drake University. After completing a residency in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he gained advanced training in hematopathology through a fellowship at City of Hope in Duarte, California.

Certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, clinical informatics, and hematology by the American Board of Pathology, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2010.

Dr. Luu is Director of Clinical Pathology at Children’s Medical Center, where he is also Medical Director of the Hematology and Coagulation Laboratories. His research interests include pediatric hematologic malignancies, hematology with an emphasis on hemoglobinopathies, and the application of technology and process improvement in the laboratory to improve operational efficiency and clinical outcomes.

A Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Luu serves on the organization’s Clinical Informatics Committee. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Food and Drug Administration’s SHIELD collaborative, a multistakeholder initiative to improve the quality, interoperability, and portability of laboratory data. He was appointed in 2022 to a three-year term on the federal Health Information Technology Advisory Council and was appointed in 2023 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee.

Dr. Luu is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the American Society of Hematology. He is an ad hoc reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the International Journal of Laboratory Hematology.

He also is the author of numerous original research articles and book chapters, including a contribution to the book Cancer Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination.

In 2022, Dr. Luu earned the President’s Honors Award from the College of American Pathologists.

Personal Note

When he’s not at work, Dr. Luu enjoys gardening and learning about art history.