Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email: Ann_Wu@harvardpilgrim.org

Phone: (617) 509-9823
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Staff Assistant: Lori Gilman

Ann Chen Wu, MD. MPH

Ann Chen Wu MD, MPH is an Instructor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. She is a pediatrician and health services researcher, and is a member of the Center for Child Health Care Studies. Her research interests are in health disparities, asthma, and pharmacogenetics.

After receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Wu completed her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. She then spent two years in private practice in CT and completed a general pediatrics fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. Prior to starting her faculty position at DACP, she was a Harvard Pediatric Health Services Fellow in the department and obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She practices general pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston.

Select Publications:

• Ullrich C, Wu AC, Armsby C, Rieber S, Wingerter S, Brugnara C, Shapiro D, Bernstein H. Screening healthy infants for iron deficiency with reticulocyte hemoglobin content. JAMA. 2005;294:924-930.
• Wu AC, Leventhal JM, Ortiz J, Gonzalez EE, Forsyth B. The interpreter as interactive teacher of residents: Improving communication for Latino patients. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2006;160:1145-1150.
• Wu AC, Paltiel AD, Kuntz KM, Weiss ST, Fuhlbrigge AL. Cost-effectiveness of omalizumab in adults with severe asthma: Results from the Asthma Policy Model. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2007;120(5):1146-52.
• Wu AC, Smith L, Bokhour B, Hohman K, Lieu TA. Racial/ethnic variation in parent perceptions of asthma. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2008;17:8(2):889-87.008; Wu AC, Smith L, Bokhour B, Hohman K, Lieu TA.
• Wu AC, Wisler-Scher, Griswold K, Colson E, Shapiro ED, Holmboe E, Benin AL. Postpartum mothers' attitudes, knowledge, and trust regarding vaccination. Maternal and Child Health Journal, in press.
• Wu AC, Fuhlbrigge AL. Economic evaluation of pharmacogenetic tests. Invited review to Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2008; in press.