Ann Kao, MD

Dr. Kao is currently the Co-Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Division at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. 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 Commonwealth Fund / Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy. She currently attends on both the Internal Medicine and Pediatric services at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Previously, Dr. Kao was a Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine. In 2005, she worked on behalf of the Tsunami Relief effort as part of “Project Hope.” 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.  She received the University of Washington School of Medicine Alumni Humanitarian award in 2007.Her areas of interest currently include quality and safety with improvement in patient experience and discharge process as well as resident and medical student education particularly around issues of family centered care and diversity.  She also works hard to keep up with her two children - 7 yo and 5 yo--and her husband who is a neurologist / epilepsy researcher at MGH.