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CHARLOTTE A WU, MD MSC, FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
charlotte.wu@harnesshealthglobal.org
Charlotte A Wu, MD MSc is a primary care internal medicine physician and innovative physician leader with over 15 years of clinical practice and strategy leadership experience with a unique cross-disciplinary background including clinical medicine, digital health, human-centered design, UX research, and clinical product & service innovation. Her clinical, teaching, and administrative experience is focused on achieving the Quadruple Aim and she is passionate about improving the health journey experience and outcomes globally through empathetic design, the integration of healthcare technology and system innovation, quality improvement, strategic evaluation, and the humanities in medicine.
Digital health innovation projects that she has led across multiple continents include developing machine learning algorithms for predicting dementia, creating IT-enabled population health management systems for cancer screening and complex patients with chronic disease, developing electronic patient-centred care plans, creating a national digital health implementation playbook, and strengthening country level primary care systems.
Organizations she has worked with include:
Columbia Business School Digital Health Executive Education Program
Chinese Center for Disease Control and National Center of HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care
And many additional health systems and technology companies worldwide
She has served on the board of directors or committees for institutions such as the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, American Medical Association, Boston Accountable Care Organization, and Massachusetts State Health Innovations Initiative.
She has contributed to the education and mentorship of many medical students, trainees, and practicing clinicians through the years. She is a Visiting Lecturer at University College London’s Global Business School for Health and is the programme lead for an executive education course on Leading and Managing Health Innovation, launching in 2023. She has served as a faculty professor at Harvard University School of Medicine and Boston University School of Medicine, and has been an invited professor at Penn State College of Medicine and the Ottowa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine. She was also an invited mentor for the UK Royal College of General Practitioners RCGP Innovation Mentorship Programme supporting GP entrepreneurs and is a graduate Entrepreneur in Residence at the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) at the University of London Goldsmiths.
She received her bachelors of arts from Stanford University, her doctorate in medicine (MD) from Yale School of Medicine, completed her residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Faculty Innovation Fellowship with the Harvard Center for Primary Care. She also holds a Masters of Science in User Experience Engineering from the University of London Goldsmiths.