Wu, Ryanne
Assistant Professor
Health Services & Systems Research
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Singapore
Biography
Dr. R. Ryanne Wu is an internal medicine physician and health services researcher. She holds joint appointments as Assistant Professor in the Signature Program in Health Services and Systems Research at Duke-NUS Medical School and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Dr. Wu completed her medical degree at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and residency in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University.She then completed a fellowship in Internal Medicine and Health Services research at Duke.She is a member of the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine at Duke University and the Center for Precision Medicine (PRISM) at Duke-NUS. She has been involved in the development and implementation of a family history risk stratification tool, MeTree, in healthcare systems across the United States. She is now evaluating the Duke-NUS environment for consideration of implementation of MeTree within the Singaporean context.
Research Interest
Risk stratification and risk counselling within primary care to improve tailoring of prevention and screening strategies to the individual patient.
Publications
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Wu R, Myers R, McCarty C, Dimmock D, Farrell M, Cross D, Chinevere T, Ginsburg G, Orlando L. Protocol for the "Implementation, adoption, and utility of family history in diverse care settings" study. Implementation Science, 2015 November; PMID: 26597091
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Orlando L, Wu R, Beadles C, Himmel T, Buchanan A, Henrich V, Hauser E, Ginsburg G. Clinical utility of a web-enabled risk assessment and clinical decision support program. Genetics in Medicine, in press.
