 Subsequently, he was awarded the American Heart Association's prestigious James Bryan Herrick Award for distinguished service to clinical cardiology during the course of his career.Yu served on the editorial boards of the "American Heart Journal", "Circulation" and the "Journal of Electrocardiology" and was a senior editor of "Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease", co-editor of the 16-volume "Progress in Cardiology" and author of the textbook "Pulmonary Blood Volume in Health and Disease".The Paul N. Yu Professorship of Cardiology at the University of Rochester was first awarded to Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD, who is the current Chair of Medicine, and served as Chief of the Cardiology Unit, and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research until 2002.