Hao Wu, MD, PhD
Biography
Hao Wu, MD, PhD, is an anatomic pathologist who evaluates tissues, cells, and organs to help identify a variety of conditions. She provides specialized assessments in pediatric and placental pathology, as well as bone and soft tissue pathology, and performs autopsy evaluations to offer comprehensive insights for patient care.
Dr. Wu completed her medical training from Xi’an Medical University in China and earned her doctoral degree from Boston University. She pursued residency at Albany Medical Center and Boston Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in pediatric pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital and cytopathology at Boston Medical Center. She is an associate professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Pathology
Education & Training
- Pediatric Pathology FellowBoston Children's Hospital (2014)
- Cytopathology FellowBoston Medical Center (2013)
- ResidentBoston Medical Center (2012)
- ResidentAlbany Medical Center (2009)
- PhDBoston University (2007)
- MDXi'an Medical University (1999)
Additional Information
- Wu H, Lindskog D, Laskin W. Mycobacterial Spindle Cell Pseudotumor Presenteing as an Aggressive Lytic Lesion in the Tibia in an Immunocompromised Patient. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2026, 10668969261422273. PMID: 41834387, DOI: 10.1177/10668969261422273.
- Wu H, Patel K, Morotti R. Pediatric Liver Tumors. Practical Anatomic Pathology 2025, 423-438. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97506-6_22.
- Krasinski C, Wu H. Histologic Glycogenic Acanthosis in the Distal Esophagus is Prevalent in Morbidly Obese Pediatric Patients Without Gastrointestinal Symptoms. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2025, 34: 106-108. PMID: 40686283, DOI: 10.1177/10668969251359942.
- Jiao J, Lindskog D, Laskin W, Wu H. Metastatic Breast Cancer to a Dedifferentiated Solitary Fibrous Tumor Arising from a PTEN Hamartoma of Soft Tissue. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2025, 33: 1856-1861. PMID: 40452397, DOI: 10.1177/10668969251343903.
- Wu H, Sukhanova M, Tang H, Lu X, Zhong M, Deshpande H, Pollack S, Laskin W, Alexiev B. Use of Mitotic Activity and the Size of Any Dedifferentiated Component for Risk Assessment in MDM2-Amplified Liposarcoma. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2024, 149: 422-430. PMID: 39164013, DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2024-0098-oa.
- Wu H, Laskin W. Myxoinflammatory Fibroblastic Sarcoma. Surgical Pathology Clinics 2023, 17: 83-96. PMID: 38278610, DOI: 10.1016/j.path.2023.07.003.
- Wu H, Zhu L, Kinnear D, Triggs N, Quintanilla N, Himes R. Clinical, Laboratory, and Histologic Correlates of Serum Antinuclear Antibody in Hispanic Pediatric Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology 2022, 158: 221-227. PMID: 35311933, DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqac028.
- Zaheer S, Han L, Wu H. Testicular Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor - a Rare Entity that May Have Mildly Elevated Serum Alpha Fetal Protein in Infants. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2022, 25: 489-490. PMID: 35156876, DOI: 10.1177/10935266221075164.
- Wu H, Tugal O, Perez-Atayde A. Hemolysis in Early Infancy. The American Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2021, 46: 801-808. PMID: 34856569, DOI: 10.1097/pas.0000000000001841.
- Wu H, Ye Q, Razzano D, Tugal O, Rosenblum J, Weigel T, Zhong M. Primary Lung Cribriform Adenocarcinoma With Squamoid Morules Harboring Somatic CTNNB1 Mutation in a Never-Smoked Healthy Adolescent. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2020, 23: 472-475. PMID: 32924814, DOI: 10.1177/1093526620957219.
- Wu H, Fuller M, Pogoriler J. Granulomatous Appendicitis in the Pediatric Population. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2019, 23: 215-221. PMID: 31619135, DOI: 10.1177/1093526619881545.
- Cowell E, Patel K, Heczey A, Finegold M, Venkatramani R, Wu H, López‐Terrada D, Miloh T. Predisposing Conditions to Pediatric Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Association With Outcomes. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2019, 68: 695-699. PMID: 30676520, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000002285.
- Wu H, Ferguson W, Castro E, Kearney D, Finegold M, Patel K. Extrahepatic Nonreticuloendothelial Siderosis Is Not Specific to Gestational Alloimmune Liver Disease. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2019, 22: 356-364. PMID: 30722724, DOI: 10.1177/1093526619826429.
- Cortes‐Santiago N, Leung D, Castro E, Finegold M, Wu H, Patel K. Hepatic Steatosis Is Prevalent Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Children With Cystic Fibrosis. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2019, 68: 96-103. PMID: 30234762, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000002154.
- Wu H, Vu M, Dhingra S, Ackah R, Goss J, Rana A, Quintanilla N, Patel K, Leung D. Obliterative Portal Venopathy Without Cirrhosis Is Prevalent in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease With Portal Hypertension. Clinical Gastroenterology And Hepatology 2018, 17: 2134-2136. PMID: 30404037, DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.10.046.
- Kodama T, Yi J, Newberg J, Tien J, Wu H, Finegold M, Kodama M, Wei Z, Tamura T, Takehara T, Johnson R, Jenkins N, Copeland N. Molecular profiling of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease-associated hepatocellular carcinoma using SB transposon mutagenesis. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2018, 115: e10417-e10426. PMID: 30327349, PMCID: PMC6217425, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808968115.
- Patel K, Harpavat S, Finegold M, Eldin K, Hicks J, Firan M, Keitel V, Kubitz R, Wu H. Post‐transplant Recurrent Bile Salt Export Pump Disease. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2017, 65: 364-369. PMID: 28945205, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000001653.
- Wu H, Ferguson W, Castro E, Finegold M, Patel K. Pediatric Mesenchymal Hamartomas of the Liver can Show Both Foregut and Hindgut Phenotype. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2017, 20: 490-497. PMID: 28468559, DOI: 10.1177/1093526617706817.
- Coffey A, Patel K, Quintanilla N, Kellermayer R, Wu H. Fundic Gland Polyps in the Pediatric Population: Clinical and Histopathologic Studies. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2017, 20: 482-489. PMID: 28429649, DOI: 10.1177/1093526617706816.
- Patel K, Kinnear D, Quintanilla N, Hicks J, Castro E, Curry C, Dormans J, Ashton D, Hernandez J, Wu H. Optimal Diagnostic Yield Achieved With On-site Pathology Evaluation of Fine-Needle Aspiration–Assisted Core Biopsies for Pediatric Osseous Lesions: A Single-Center Experience. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2017, 141: 678-683. PMID: 28301225, DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0269-oa.
- Wu H, Chintagumpala M, Hicks J, Nuchtern J, Okcu M, Venkatramani R. Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Appendix in Children. Journal Of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2017, 39: 97-102. PMID: 27306228, DOI: 10.1097/mph.0000000000000598.
- Patel K, Bertuch A, Sasa G, Himes R, Wu H. Features of Hepatitis in Hepatitis‐associated Aplastic Anemia. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2017, 64: e7-e12. PMID: 28030425, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000001271.
- Wu H, Pangas S, Eldin K, Patel K, Hicks J, Dietrich J, Venkatramani R. Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor of the Ovary: A Clinicopathologic Study. Journal Of Pediatric And Adolescent Gynecology 2016, 30: 138-143. PMID: 27702598, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2016.09.008.
- Kodama T, Newberg J, Kodama M, Rangel R, Yoshihara K, Tien J, Parsons P, Wu H, Finegold M, Copeland N, Jenkins N. Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes and cellular processes driving epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: e3384-e3393. PMID: 27247392, PMCID: PMC4914200, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606876113.
- Best-Rocha A, Patel K, Hicks J, Edmonds J, Paldino M, Wu H. Novel Association of Odontogenic Myxoma with Constitutional Chromosomal 1q21 Microduplication: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2016, 19: 139-145. PMID: 26230961, DOI: 10.2350/15-05-1637-cr.1.
- Venkatramani R, Pan H, Furman W, Marron J, Haduong J, Friedrich-Medina P, Mahajan A, Bavle A, Wu H, Chintagumpala M. Multimodality Treatment of Pediatric Esthesioneuroblastoma. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2015, 63: 465-470. PMID: 26514449, PMCID: PMC5134836, DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25817.
- Wu H, Sun Y, Ye H, Yang S, Lee S, de las Morenas A. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Outcome and the Mutation/Expression Profiles of Potential Targets. Pathology & Oncology Research 2015, 21: 695-701. PMID: 25588542, DOI: 10.1007/s12253-014-9876-5.
Biography
Hao Wu, MD, PhD, is an anatomic pathologist who evaluates tissues, cells, and organs to help identify a variety of conditions. She provides specialized assessments in pediatric and placental pathology, as well as bone and soft tissue pathology, and performs autopsy evaluations to offer comprehensive insights for patient care.
Dr. Wu completed her medical training from Xi’an Medical University in China and earned her doctoral degree from Boston University. She pursued residency at Albany Medical Center and Boston Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in pediatric pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital and cytopathology at Boston Medical Center. She is an associate professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Pathology
Education & Training
- Pediatric Pathology FellowBoston Children's Hospital (2014)
- Cytopathology FellowBoston Medical Center (2013)
- ResidentBoston Medical Center (2012)
- ResidentAlbany Medical Center (2009)
- PhDBoston University (2007)
- MDXi'an Medical University (1999)
Additional Information
- Wu H, Lindskog D, Laskin W. Mycobacterial Spindle Cell Pseudotumor Presenteing as an Aggressive Lytic Lesion in the Tibia in an Immunocompromised Patient. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2026, 10668969261422273. PMID: 41834387, DOI: 10.1177/10668969261422273.
- Wu H, Patel K, Morotti R. Pediatric Liver Tumors. Practical Anatomic Pathology 2025, 423-438. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97506-6_22.
- Krasinski C, Wu H. Histologic Glycogenic Acanthosis in the Distal Esophagus is Prevalent in Morbidly Obese Pediatric Patients Without Gastrointestinal Symptoms. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2025, 34: 106-108. PMID: 40686283, DOI: 10.1177/10668969251359942.
- Jiao J, Lindskog D, Laskin W, Wu H. Metastatic Breast Cancer to a Dedifferentiated Solitary Fibrous Tumor Arising from a PTEN Hamartoma of Soft Tissue. International Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2025, 33: 1856-1861. PMID: 40452397, DOI: 10.1177/10668969251343903.
- Wu H, Sukhanova M, Tang H, Lu X, Zhong M, Deshpande H, Pollack S, Laskin W, Alexiev B. Use of Mitotic Activity and the Size of Any Dedifferentiated Component for Risk Assessment in MDM2-Amplified Liposarcoma. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2024, 149: 422-430. PMID: 39164013, DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2024-0098-oa.
- Wu H, Laskin W. Myxoinflammatory Fibroblastic Sarcoma. Surgical Pathology Clinics 2023, 17: 83-96. PMID: 38278610, DOI: 10.1016/j.path.2023.07.003.
- Wu H, Zhu L, Kinnear D, Triggs N, Quintanilla N, Himes R. Clinical, Laboratory, and Histologic Correlates of Serum Antinuclear Antibody in Hispanic Pediatric Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology 2022, 158: 221-227. PMID: 35311933, DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqac028.
- Zaheer S, Han L, Wu H. Testicular Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor - a Rare Entity that May Have Mildly Elevated Serum Alpha Fetal Protein in Infants. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2022, 25: 489-490. PMID: 35156876, DOI: 10.1177/10935266221075164.
- Wu H, Tugal O, Perez-Atayde A. Hemolysis in Early Infancy. The American Journal Of Surgical Pathology 2021, 46: 801-808. PMID: 34856569, DOI: 10.1097/pas.0000000000001841.
- Wu H, Ye Q, Razzano D, Tugal O, Rosenblum J, Weigel T, Zhong M. Primary Lung Cribriform Adenocarcinoma With Squamoid Morules Harboring Somatic CTNNB1 Mutation in a Never-Smoked Healthy Adolescent. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2020, 23: 472-475. PMID: 32924814, DOI: 10.1177/1093526620957219.
- Wu H, Fuller M, Pogoriler J. Granulomatous Appendicitis in the Pediatric Population. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2019, 23: 215-221. PMID: 31619135, DOI: 10.1177/1093526619881545.
- Cowell E, Patel K, Heczey A, Finegold M, Venkatramani R, Wu H, López‐Terrada D, Miloh T. Predisposing Conditions to Pediatric Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Association With Outcomes. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2019, 68: 695-699. PMID: 30676520, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000002285.
- Wu H, Ferguson W, Castro E, Kearney D, Finegold M, Patel K. Extrahepatic Nonreticuloendothelial Siderosis Is Not Specific to Gestational Alloimmune Liver Disease. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2019, 22: 356-364. PMID: 30722724, DOI: 10.1177/1093526619826429.
- Cortes‐Santiago N, Leung D, Castro E, Finegold M, Wu H, Patel K. Hepatic Steatosis Is Prevalent Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Children With Cystic Fibrosis. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2019, 68: 96-103. PMID: 30234762, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000002154.
- Wu H, Vu M, Dhingra S, Ackah R, Goss J, Rana A, Quintanilla N, Patel K, Leung D. Obliterative Portal Venopathy Without Cirrhosis Is Prevalent in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease With Portal Hypertension. Clinical Gastroenterology And Hepatology 2018, 17: 2134-2136. PMID: 30404037, DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.10.046.
- Kodama T, Yi J, Newberg J, Tien J, Wu H, Finegold M, Kodama M, Wei Z, Tamura T, Takehara T, Johnson R, Jenkins N, Copeland N. Molecular profiling of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease-associated hepatocellular carcinoma using SB transposon mutagenesis. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2018, 115: e10417-e10426. PMID: 30327349, PMCID: PMC6217425, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808968115.
- Patel K, Harpavat S, Finegold M, Eldin K, Hicks J, Firan M, Keitel V, Kubitz R, Wu H. Post‐transplant Recurrent Bile Salt Export Pump Disease. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2017, 65: 364-369. PMID: 28945205, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000001653.
- Wu H, Ferguson W, Castro E, Finegold M, Patel K. Pediatric Mesenchymal Hamartomas of the Liver can Show Both Foregut and Hindgut Phenotype. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2017, 20: 490-497. PMID: 28468559, DOI: 10.1177/1093526617706817.
- Coffey A, Patel K, Quintanilla N, Kellermayer R, Wu H. Fundic Gland Polyps in the Pediatric Population: Clinical and Histopathologic Studies. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2017, 20: 482-489. PMID: 28429649, DOI: 10.1177/1093526617706816.
- Patel K, Kinnear D, Quintanilla N, Hicks J, Castro E, Curry C, Dormans J, Ashton D, Hernandez J, Wu H. Optimal Diagnostic Yield Achieved With On-site Pathology Evaluation of Fine-Needle Aspiration–Assisted Core Biopsies for Pediatric Osseous Lesions: A Single-Center Experience. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2017, 141: 678-683. PMID: 28301225, DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0269-oa.
- Wu H, Chintagumpala M, Hicks J, Nuchtern J, Okcu M, Venkatramani R. Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Appendix in Children. Journal Of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2017, 39: 97-102. PMID: 27306228, DOI: 10.1097/mph.0000000000000598.
- Patel K, Bertuch A, Sasa G, Himes R, Wu H. Features of Hepatitis in Hepatitis‐associated Aplastic Anemia. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2017, 64: e7-e12. PMID: 28030425, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000001271.
- Wu H, Pangas S, Eldin K, Patel K, Hicks J, Dietrich J, Venkatramani R. Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor of the Ovary: A Clinicopathologic Study. Journal Of Pediatric And Adolescent Gynecology 2016, 30: 138-143. PMID: 27702598, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2016.09.008.
- Kodama T, Newberg J, Kodama M, Rangel R, Yoshihara K, Tien J, Parsons P, Wu H, Finegold M, Copeland N, Jenkins N. Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes and cellular processes driving epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: e3384-e3393. PMID: 27247392, PMCID: PMC4914200, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606876113.
- Best-Rocha A, Patel K, Hicks J, Edmonds J, Paldino M, Wu H. Novel Association of Odontogenic Myxoma with Constitutional Chromosomal 1q21 Microduplication: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Pediatric And Developmental Pathology 2016, 19: 139-145. PMID: 26230961, DOI: 10.2350/15-05-1637-cr.1.
- Venkatramani R, Pan H, Furman W, Marron J, Haduong J, Friedrich-Medina P, Mahajan A, Bavle A, Wu H, Chintagumpala M. Multimodality Treatment of Pediatric Esthesioneuroblastoma. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2015, 63: 465-470. PMID: 26514449, PMCID: PMC5134836, DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25817.
- Wu H, Sun Y, Ye H, Yang S, Lee S, de las Morenas A. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Outcome and the Mutation/Expression Profiles of Potential Targets. Pathology & Oncology Research 2015, 21: 695-701. PMID: 25588542, DOI: 10.1007/s12253-014-9876-5.