Albert W. Wu

Biography

Albert W. Wu is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in Epidemiology, International Health, Medicine, Surgery, and the Carey Business School. He is director of the Center for Health Services and Outcomes R search, and of the PhD Program in Health Services Research. Dr. Wu received his M.D. from the Weill Medical College at Cornell University, and his M.P.H from the School of Public Health at the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Wu is PI or co-investigator on 4 current PCORI funded projects, and co-directs the Research Facilitating Team for the CMMI funded Johns Hopkins Community Partnership. He teaches a series of courses at Johns Hopkins on health outcomes, quality of care, comparative effectiveness and patient safety and has 25 years of experience as a practicing internist and HIV physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently a member of the National Quality Forum Patient Safety Measures Permanent committee. Dr. Wu developed several of the most widely-used patient reported outcome (PRO) measures in HIV, founded the Outcomes Committee of the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group, and led PRO measurement for the National Eye Institute’s SOCA Research Network. He has used both qualitative and quantitative research methods in many studies of patient centered outcomes and effectiveness. Dr. Wu was President of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, and is co-developer of the PatientViewpoint webtool. He was director the AHRQ-funded Hopkins DEcIDE center for comparative effectiveness research, which successfully completed 11 task orders on topics ranging from diabetes medications, to bariatric surgery and chronic kidney disease. He has conducted research on patient safety since 1988. He was co-PI on a 2001 AHRQ grant to develop the ICU-Safety Reporting System. He is a core member of the Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety, was a member of the IOM Committee on Preventing Medication Errors, and Senior Adviser in Patient Safety to WHO in Geneva. Dr. Wu is President of Faculty Senate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a joint appointment at the Carey Business School. He is a member of the Permanent Patient Safety Committee, National Quality Forum. Dr. Wu is Associate Editor of the Journal of Patient Safety; Editorial Board: The Patient; Comparative Effectiveness Research. He recently served on the IOM Committee on Review of Clinical Guidance for the Care of Health Conditions Identified by the Camp Lejeune Legislation; Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Patient Outcomes. Dr. Wu has published over 375 peer-reviewed papers with an Impact Factor of 89.

Research Interest

Management