Allison Wu, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Allison Wu, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
Education
Undergraduate School
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
PA
Graduate School
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston
MA
Medical School
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Los Angeles
CA
Residency
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
Los Angeles
CA
Fellowship
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston
MA
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (General)
American Board of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
American Board of Obesity Medicine
Professional History
Dr. Wu is a general pediatric gastroenterologist with a focus in nutrition and nutrition-related health disorders. Her research interests include pediatric obesity and nutrition epidemiology and health services research. In Boston, she attends on the inpatient nutrition and procedure services. Her outpatient general gastroenterology clinic at Martha Eliot Health Center in Jamaica Plain.
Approach to Care
I believe nutrition plays an integral role in the comprehensive care of patients, which is what drew me to Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. I am passionate about clinical care, pediatric obesity and nutrition health services research, and health equity.
Publications
Household Nutrition Security Scale (HNSS): Further Establishing Validity and Reliability in a Statewide Sample in Massachusetts. View Abstract
Development and application of a cost tool for a primary care-based intensive health behaviour and lifestyle treatment. View Abstract
Caregiver and Pediatrician Perspectives on a Meal Kit Delivery Program for Children With Food Insecurity and Obesity: A Qualitative Analysis. View Abstract
Neighborhood Food Access in Early Life and Trajectories of Child Body Mass Index and Obesity. View Abstract
Satisfaction with a meal kit delivery program and feasibility of a phase I trial in the intervening in food insecurity to reduce and mitigate (InFoRM) childhood obesity study. View Abstract
Birth outcomes in relation to neighborhood food access and individual food insecurity during pregnancy in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide cohort study. View Abstract
Childhood Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: an Agent-Based Model of Context-Specific Reduction Efforts. View Abstract
Plant-Based Family Food Packages and Weight Change in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
Developmental Contributions to Obesity: Nutritional Exposures in the First Thousand Days. View Abstract
Sociodemographic Differences of Hospitalization and Associations of Resource Utilization for Failure to Thrive. View Abstract
An agent-based model of child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: implications for policies and practices. View Abstract
Associations of Healthy Infant Feeding Practices and Early Childhood Adiposity in the Rise & SHINE Cohort. View Abstract
Association of Changes in Obesity Prevalence With the COVID-19 Pandemic in Youth in Massachusetts. View Abstract
Association of Mode of Obstetric Delivery With Child and Adolescent Body Composition. View Abstract
Associations of midchildhood to early adolescence central adiposity gain with cardiometabolic health in early adolescence. View Abstract
Longitudinal associations of fruit juice intake in infancy with DXA-measured abdominal adiposity in mid-childhood and early adolescence. View Abstract
Associations of DXA-measured abdominal adiposity with cardio-metabolic risk and related markers in early adolescence in Project Viva. View Abstract
Impact of Clinical Factors on the Intestinal Microbiome in Infants With Gastroschisis. View Abstract
Anorectal Malformation with Colonic Duplication and Dual Rectovaginal Fistulae View Abstract
Expansion of prominin-1-expressing cells in association with fibrosis of biliary atresia. View Abstract
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