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Edward Wong, MD
Children's National Medical Center
Faculty, Laboratory Medicine
Principal Investigator, Children's Research Institute (CRI), Center for Translational Science

George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Pathology

Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center 
Center for Translational Science 
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970

202-476-5339
ewong@childrensnational.org


Education & Training
Institution & Location Degree Year(s) Field of Study
University of California, Davis, CA BS 1984 Biochemistry
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO MD/MA 1989 Medicine
Barnes-Jewish Hospitals, St. Louis, MO
1989-1994 Clinical Pathology Residency
UNC Memorial Hospitals, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Fellow 1997-1998 Transfusion Medicine
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
NIH Senior Staff Fellow 1998-2000 Transfusion Medicine

Research Interests
Edward Wong, MD, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, is a nationally recognized expert in pediatric transfusion therapy. He is director of hematology, director of the clinical apheresis service and associate director of transfusion medicine in the Division of Laboratory Medicine at Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Wong joined the staff of Children's National Medical Center in 2000 after completing a transfusion medicine fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He earned his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, and a combined masters and medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. After completing a residency in clinical pathology at the Barnes/Jewish Hospitals in St. Louis, he completed fellowship training in transfusion medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wong has been involved in the evaluation of new automated hematologic parameters involved in stem cell mobilization and iron deficiency, lead testing in blood donors, and novel applications of therapeutic apheresis and transfusion efficacy of new blood products. He has published 16 articles and 52 abstracts and has authored or co-authored 12 book chapters, section editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, first edition and co-editor of Pediatric Reference Intervals, fifth edition.

Clinical Interests
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Publications
View a partial list of Edward Wong's publications through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.


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