Wanda Phipatanakul MD, MS

Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, is the S. Jean Emans Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is also an Attending Physician and Director of the Clinical Research Center in the Division of Immunology at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Phipatanakul received her medical degree from Loma Linda University in California and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in California. After a fellowship in immunology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, she joined the faculty in the Division of Immunology and Allergy at Boston Children’s and Harvard Medical School, where she has remained for over two decades.

As a clinical researcher, Dr. Phipatanakul has received continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health for 23 years. She currently leads the NIAID School Inner-City Asthma Intervention Study, the NHLBI Environment Assessment of Sleep in Youth, the NIAID-funded PARK study, and a NIAID IDEA study. She is also the pediatric principal investigator at her center for multiple NHLBI asthma and prevention networks, and conducts school- and home-based asthma studies in children focused on reducing disparities.

Dr. Phipatanakul has authored over 350 publications in scientific journals, including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of investigators, and has received multiple awards for her efforts. Dr. Phipatanakul serves on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. She is also the Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology (JACI) and is on the Editorial Board for several other journals including JACI in Practice and Chest. She is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians’ honor societies for outstanding academic achievement. She is passionate about serving as a role model and supportive mentor to others balancing work and family.