Dr. Andy Wen

Biography

Dr. Andy Y. Wen joined the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2019. He received a B.A. degree in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Rutgers University and completed his medical degree at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He finished his Pediatrics Residency Training Program at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Wen has contributed significantly while briefly working with Kaiser Permanente Southern California and later at NYU School of Medicine, where he became the medical director of Bellevue Hospital's PICU. He played a vital role during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and established the National Ebola Training and Education Center. His research at UCLA focused on the role of the transcription factor CREB in innate immune function. At NYU, he worked on quality improvement projects and was involved in multi-center studies concerning critical care patients. He teaches Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) and has developed various educational programs to enhance medical education in pediatric critical care. Currently, he is responsible for the Regional Pediatric Critical Care Outreach at Stanford, aiming to expand access to high-quality care for sick children.

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