Overview
Dr. Katherine Wu is a general cardiologist for the Heart and Vascular Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine with an interest in caring for patients with cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease as well as those interested in cardiovascular prevention. She has additional expertise in non-invasive cardiology imaging techniques. Dr. Wu received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Health System School of Medicine, and completed her residency and a cardiology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the School of Medicine faculty in 2000. Dr. Wu's research interests include improving individualized risk prediction for sudden cardiac death and heart failure by developing and validating methods that incorporate novel cardiac imaging indices. Her lab is funded by the NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Wu has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging and is a standing member of the NIH Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences Study Section.
Dr. Wu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Murmurs. Her top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Attack, and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 107 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
Suite 7200, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Wu has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
Office
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Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Distinguished
- Atrial FibrillationDr. Wu isDistinguished. Learn about Atrial Fibrillation.
- CardiomyopathyDr. Wu isDistinguished. Learn about Cardiomyopathy.
- Heart AttackDr. Wu isDistinguished. Learn about Heart Attack.
- Advanced
- ApoplexyDr. Wu isAdvanced. Learn about Apoplexy.
- ArrhythmiasDr. Wu isAdvanced. Learn about Arrhythmias.
- Arterial EmbolismDr. Wu isAdvanced. Learn about Arterial Embolism.
- Cardiac ArrestDr. Wu isAdvanced. Learn about Cardiac Arrest.
- Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Heart FailureDr. Wu isAdvanced. Learn about Heart Failure.
- Experienced
- AnginaDr. Wu isExperienced. Learn about Angina.
- Aortic RegurgitationDr. Wu isExperienced. Learn about Aortic Regurgitation.
- Aortic Valve StenosisDr. Wu isExperienced. Learn about Aortic Valve Stenosis.
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
- AtherosclerosisDr. Wu isExperienced. Learn about Atherosclerosis.
- Brugada SyndromeDr. Wu isExperienced. Learn about Brugada Syndrome.