Fredrick chen, md, mph

Frederick Chen is a Senior Investigator in the University of Washington’s WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and the Center for Health Workforce Studies. Dr. Chen has been an Atlantic Fellow at the Public Health Policy Unit of the University College London, where he examined primary care research policy in the National Health Service. Prior to that, he was the Kerr White Visiting Scholar in the Center for Primary Care Research at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Chen received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his M.P.H in epidemiology at UC Berkeley. After training in family medicine at the University of Washington he completed a fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. His research interests cover a variety of health policy issues, ranging from bioterrorism preparedness to medical education outcomes research. Dr. Chen has a clinical practice at the Harborview Family Medicine Clinic.