Yuri Okuizumi-Wu, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Yuri Okuizumi-Wu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree at The University of Illinois School of Medicine (Chicago) and completed her residency at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Medical Center in New York City. After residency, she worked at North Central and Jacobi Hospitals in the Bronx and then joined a private practice in inner-city Chicago. In 2002, she relocated to Atlanta and joined the faculty at Emory, practicing at the first comprehensive school-based health clinics in Georgia, the Whitefoord and Coan School Based-Health Clinics for 8 years. She served as their interim Medical Director for both school clinics from 2009-2010. Her experiences at Whitefoord and Coan have shaped her belief that school-based clinics are the ideal models for providing quality care for the underserved children of Georgia. Since September 2010, she has practiced at the Primary Care Clinic of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Hughes Spalding campus.