Albert W. Wu, MD, MPH

Professional Titles

• Director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
• Health Services and Outcomes Research, Center for

X Profile

https://www.twitter.com/withyouDrWu

Additional Academic Titles

Joint Appointment in Medicine, Joint Appointment in Surgery

Contact for Research Inquiries

624 N Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone: (410) 614-5089

Google Scholar - Publications

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2NZHc3oAAAAJ&hl=en

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