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Albert W. Wu

Albert W. Wu, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine

Infectious Diseases

Accepting New Patients
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
  • Johns Hopkins Health System

Languages

  • Swedish
  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Male

About Albert W. Wu

Professional Titles

  • Director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research

Background

Albert W. Wu is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Medicine, with joint appointments in Epidemiology, International Health, Medicine and Surgery.  He received BA and MD degrees from Cornell University, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital and UC San Diego. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF and received an MPH from UC Berkeley.  His research and teaching focus on patient outcomes and quality of care. He was the first to measure the quality of life impact of antiretroviral therapy in HIV clinical trials. He developed the MOS-HIV health survey, and other questionnaires to measure quality of life, adherence, satisfaction, attitudes and behaviors for people with chronic disease. He was co-founder and director of the outcomes research committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the NIH, and President of the International Society for Quality of Life. He advises many US and international organizations on PRO methods. He is director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, He has studied the handling of medical errors since 1988, was a member of the Institute of Medicine committee on identifying and preventing medication errors, and was Senior Adviser for Patient Safety to WHO in Geneva. His current research is on incorporating PROs into the electronic health record, PRO-performance measures for primary care, supporting healthcare workers after adverse events, and creating a network community based organizations. He has authored over 400 peer review publications. and is co-author of the recent book "New Horizons in Patient Safety, Understanding Communication. He leads the PhD program in health services research, the Masters of Applied Science in Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality, and the Certificate program in Quality, Patient Safety and Outcomes Research in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He maintains a clinical practice in general internal medicine.

Additional Academic Titles

Joint Appointment in Surgery, Joint Appointment in Medicine

Contact for Research Inquiries

624 N Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone: (410) 614-5089

Courses & Syllabi

  • Quality of Medical Care. (Co-Instructor - Dy), HPM 311.615.81
  • Patient Safety and Medical Errors. (Lead Instructor), HPM 309.730.81
  • Assessing health status and patient outcomes. (Lead Instructor), HPM 309.712.81
  • Introduction to comparative effectiveness and outcomes research. (Co-Instructor - Segal), HPM 312.693.01
  • Organizational and human factors in patient safety. (Co-instructor - Gurses), HPM 309.732.01
  • Patient safety in developing countries. (Co-instructor - Syed), HPM 309.781.11, 1/1/11 - 12/31/11

Honors

  • Fellow, Association for Health Services Research
  • Fellow, American College of Physicians
  • Delta Omega Honor Society
  • Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 5/20/16
  • Bronze World Medal for ''Removing Insult from Injury: Disclosing Adverse Events', New York Festivals: Film and Video: Health Care Professional Education, 1/1/06

Lectures & Presentations

  • An Irishman abroad in life and at home in science: Introduction to Biomedical Research and Careers, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/09
  • Changing the Patient Safety Paradigm, Peking Union Medical College, 1/12/13
  • Changing the Patient Safety Paradigm., Division of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, 7/12/13
  • Comparative functional genetic approaches to HSCR. International Hirschsprung and associated neurocristopathies meeting, Italy, 1/1/04
  • Deciphering regulatory control: the role of cis-regulation in development and disease, Washington University, St Louis, 1/1/07
  • Deciphering regulatory control: the role of cis-regulation in development and disease. The Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, 1/1/07
  • Development of a comparative functional approach to identifying mutations in noncoding sequences, 53rd American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, 1/1/03
  • Disclosing Medical Errors to Patients, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1/12/13
  • Disclosing Medical Errors to Patients., Medicine Grand Rounds, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 12/12/13
  • Early Examples: Testing Functional Requirement for RBM24 and SKI Orthologs During Zebrafish Development, Leducq Consortium Meeting, Antwerp, 1/1/13
  • Efficient functional examination of human non-coding sequences in transgenic zebrafish, The biology of genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, 1/1/05
  • Efforts to understand control of critical developmental and disease genes, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, 1/1/07
  • Efforts to understand control of critical developmental and disease genes: RET regulation among others., Dept Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 1/1/06
  • Establishing the functional potential of conserved non-coding sequences, 18th International Mouse Genome Meeting, Seattle, 1/1/04
  • Fishing for functional DNA: Efficient functional examination of non-coding sequences in transgenic zebrafish, 55th American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 1/1/05
  • Fishing For Functional Variation, Radboud Medical Center, Netherlands, 1/1/15
  • Functional Genetic Dissection of Regulatory Control and Human Disease., Biological Sciences, James Madison University, 1/1/11
  • Functional Genetic Evaluation of Cardiovascular Disease Genes In Zebrafish, Leducq Consortium Planning Meeting, Baltimore, 1/1/12
  • Genetics and Genomics A Voyage Of Discovery, 8th annual Young Investigator Symposium on Genomics and Bioinformatics - Opening Speaker, 1/1/14
  • Genomics and the control of critical genes in development and disease., Program in Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland, 1/1/06
  • Human, mouse, and fish: a menagerie a trois in comparative functional analysis, Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 1/1/07
  • Implementation of Genome Editing In Zebrafish And Development of Novel Tools, Leducq Consortium Meeting, Stockholm, 1/1/14
  • Implementing A Functional Genomics Pipeline To Illuminate GWAS-derived signals., IBD Genetics Consortium meeting, 1/1/13
  • Isabelle Christenson Memorial Lecture, Pittsburgh Childrens Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1/6/13
  • Isabelle Christenson Memorial Lecture., Grand Round Lecture, Pittsburgh Childrens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 3/6/13
  • Models of Success: In Search of a Better Understanding and Improved Treatments of Genetic Disease, 58th American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, 1/1/08
  • Outcomes research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 1/5/13
  • Outcomes research. How can we make it patient centered?, Division of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 4/5/13
  • Regulatory mutations - the new Holy Grail of human genetics, Institute for Child Health, University College London, London, 1/1/04
  • RET regulation and other journeys: Efforts to understand control of critical developmental and disease genes., Center for Vertebrate Genomics, Cornell University, 1/1/06
  • RET regulation: Efforts to understand control of a critical developmental and disease gene. Development of the Enteric Nervous System: Cells, Signals, and Genes, New York, 1/1/06
  • Systematic Exploration Of Clinically Implicated Sequence Variation., MD/PhD Retreat, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1/1/14
  • Taking the Genome Apart to See How it Works: Applying Functional Genetics to Development and Disease., Center for Human Genetics Research Seminar - Annual Graduate Student Selected Speaker, Vanderbilt University, 1/1/09
  • Taking the Genome Apart to See How it Works: Applying Functional Genetics to Development and Disease., Human Genetics, Michigan University, 1/1/09
  • Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression, Bar Harbor: Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics, 1/1/08
  • Unraveling critical genetic mechanisms in development and disease, National Institute of Aging, 1/1/07
  • Unraveling critical genetic mechanisms in development and disease., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1/1/08
  • Unveiling the regulation of genes contributing to Hirschsprung Disease and other neurocristopathies, The 2nd International Symposium on Development of the Enteric Nervous System, University College London, 1/1/09

Graduate Program Affiliations

  • Faculty Member, Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Memberships

  • AcademyHealth
  • American College of Physicians
  • International Society for Quality of Life Research
  • Society of General Internal Medicine

Professional Activities

  • Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Director
  • DEcIDE Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Director
  • Health and Medicine, International Editorial Board
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, President Elect
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chair
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chair
  • Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Editorial Advisory Board
  • Journal of Patient Safety, Editorial Advisory Board
  • Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation, Transparency Roundtable
  • MAPI Research Institute, Scientific Advisory Committee
  • National Quality Forum Patient Safety Measures Project, Steering Committee
  • Patient Safety and Outcomes Research, Director
  • Phd Program in Health Services Research and Policy, Director
  • Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, International Editorial Board
  • Ray Wu Memorial Fund, Board of Directors
  • The Patient: Patient Centered Outcomes Research, Editorial Board

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
    • 601 North Caroline Street, Floor 7, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    UC San Diego Health

    Fellowship, Medicine, 1987

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Residency, Internal Medicine, 1986

    Weill Cornell Medical College

    Medical Education, MD, 1984

    Board Certifications

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 1987

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