#  Ann Kao, MD, MPH 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Co-Director, Pediatric Hospitalist Division at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children

 

 

 



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Dr. Kao is currently the Co-Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Division at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, and attends on both the Internal Medicine and Pediatric services at Massachusetts General Hospital. She combines this with frequent international projects, most recently in Ecuador as part of an effort to increase services to developmentally disabled children; she also recently led a team in a health care project for children in Panama supporting a local NGO, Pro Ninez. Previously, Dr. Kao was a Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine, and Clinical and Research Fellow at MGH who was trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics. In 2005, she worked on behalf of the Tsunami Relief effort as part of “Project Hope,” and as a result co-authored an article for the New England Journal of Medicine. She has also traveled to Rwanda, where she started up a health center and hospital in a refugee camp, as well as to Romania, Vietnam, and is a pediatric clinical advisor to the Cambodian Health committee. Domestically, she has worked at a Navajo Reservation in Chinle, AZ and an urgent care clinic in Chelsea, MA, serving a population largely consisting of immigrants from Latin America. She received the University of Washington School of Medicine Alumni Humanitarian award in 2007.  
  
Dr. Kao received her medical degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 2000, and completed her combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Children’s Hospital Boston in 2004. She received an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007 as a CFHU Fellow.



 

 

 





 

 

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