Wendy Chung

Wendy Chung is the Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Mary Ellen Avery Professor at Harvard Medical School. She holds dual MD and PhD degrees from Cornell University and Rockefeller University. Her research focuses on genomic medicine, rare genetic disorders, and ethical implications of genomics. Chung leads NIH-funded programs studying autism, congenital heart defects, pulmonary hypertension, and genomic newborn screening initiatives like GUARDIAN.

Education: BA in Biochemistry (Cornell, 1990), PhD in Genetics (Rockefeller, 1996), MD (Cornell, 1998). Completed residencies and fellowships in Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Research Interests:

• Genomic basis of Mendelian conditions
• AI-driven genomic variant interpretation
• Translation of genomic data into clinical tools
• Gene therapy for rare diseases

Awards: Rare Impact Award (NORD), National Academy of Medicine Membership

Grants & Labs: Principal Investigator for NIH grants and GUARDIAN newborn screening project. Leads SPARK and Simons Searchlight autism studies, DHREAMS congenital diaphragmatic hernia initiative, and pediatric cardiac genomics consortia.