Katherine Wu, MD

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Heart and Vascular Institute
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Service

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Research Interests

Cardiac imaging, Cardiac risk factors, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiovascular Modelling, Echocardiography, Left ventricular dysfunction, Magnetic resonance imaging, Non-invasive imaging, Risk Prediction, Sudden cardiac death

Lab Website

• Wu Lab

  • Wu Lab

    Dr. Wu leads a multi-disciplinary team with collaborators from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU Whiting School of Engineering, and JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.  She conducts ongoing investigations with the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Inter-agency Health Study. Her lab’s goals are to develop, implement, and validate novel imaging-based metrics of cardiac structure and function to improve risk prediction and stratification at the individual patient-level.

    Research Focuses:

    • Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • Subclinical myocardial disease in people living with HIV
    • Individualized risk prediction
    • Cardiac structural and mechanical modeling

    Funding Support:

    • NIH/NHLBI
    • Johns Hopkins Discovery Award Program
    • Johns Hopkins inHealth Pilot Project Discovery Program   

    Active Projects:

    1. Identifying risk factors for subclinical myocardial disease in HIV infection
    2. Cardiac MR to Improve Clinical Risk Prediction in Defibrillator Patients
    3. Novel Methods for Non-Invasive Assessment of Myocardial Fibrosis Complexity and Disorganization to Predict Ventricular Arrhythmias
    4. Understanding clinical and subclinical predictors, biomarkers and pathogenesis of chronic diseases in HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) as compared to HIV-uninfected MSM: Ambulatory EKG and Echo Core Lab
    5. Personalized Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death Using Cardiac MRI and Virtual Heart Electrophysiologic Studies (PuRSUit-Virtual Heart) in Ischemic and Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy

    Collaborators

    • Hiroshi Ashikaga
    • Jonathan Crispin
    • Gary Gerstenblith
    • Aravindan Kolandaivelu
    • Joao Lima
    • Mauro Maggioni
    • Wendy Post
    • Gordon Tomaselli
    • Natalia Trayanova
    • Robert Weiss
    • Scott Zeger

Google Scholar - Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9-yIwFQAAAAJ&hl=en