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Edward “Teddy” Wu, MD, MS was appointed Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at Pennsylvania Hospital in September 2020. Dr. Wu graduated in 1996 from Harvard University with a degree in biochemical sciences and earned his MD from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 2001, along with an MPA from the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in Health Policy and Management. He completed a residency in General Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2004 and then a general internal medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, earning an MS in medical education. After working briefly in Rhode Island, and Allentown, PA (where he met Dr. Shalaby!), Dr. Wu was in practice at Penn Medicine-Delancey Medical Associates, affiliated with Pennsylvania Hospital, from 2009 to 2013, and also precepted in the Penn Internal Medicine-J. Edwin Wood Practice, where the internal medicine residents practice outpatient medicine. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Wood Practice in 2013, and then served as Medical Director of the Wood Practice from 2017 to 2023. Dr. Wu returned to his own clinical practice in 2023, and remains dedicated to the care of the Wood Practice's patients as well as the education of the residents. He was the recipient of the 2019 Edward Viner Teaching Award and the 2023 Michael Braffman Compassionate Leadership Award, both of which are selected by the residents. Dr. Wu has published articles on physical examination skills, procedural skills of medical students, and perceptions of medical student abuse. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), and is active in the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) at the regional and national levels, as well as the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM).

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