Emily S. Wan MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
150 S Huntington Avenue | (857) 364-6735ewan@bu.edu
emily.wan@va.gov
Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Biography
Dr. Wan is a graduate of Yale University and the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. She completed her internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital followed by fellowship training in the Harvard Combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Program. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attends in the ICU and inpatient and outpatient pulmonary services at VA Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research interests include the epidemiology, genetics, and genomics of COPD. She is a member of the Genetics Analysis Core of the COPDGene Study and is the principal investigator of research grants from the Alpha-1 Foundation and a Career Development Award 2 from the Veterans Administration.
Websites
Education
Medicine, MD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Publications
Siddharthan T, Sethi S, Wan E, Lamprey C, Aggarwal K, Dixon A, Pan Y, Tejwani V. Progression from GOLD A/B to GOLD E: a claims analysis of patients with COPD newly initiating inhaled therapy. BMC Pulm Med. 2025 Aug 30; 25(1):412. PMID: 40885935.
Published on 8/26/2025Zhang C, Konigsberg IR, He Y, Zhang J, Chikowore T, Feldman WB, Hu X, Ding Y, Pasaniuc B, Chang D, Chen Q, Lasky-Su JA, Hecker J, Tobin MD, Chen J, Kalra S, Pratte KA, Im HK, Wan ES, Manichaikul A, Silverman EK, Bowler RP, Lange LA, Ortega VE, Martin AR, Cho MH, Moll MR. Multi-Trait Polygenic Scores for COPD and COPD Exacerbations Implicate Druggable Proteins. medRxiv. 2025 Aug 26. PMID: 40909810.
Published on 7/1/2025Hosseini R, Garshick E, Slade MD, Timmons A, Korpak AM, Smith NL, Nakayama KS, Baird CP, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan VS, Hart JE, Koutrakis P, Kuschner WG, Ioachimescu OC, Jerrett M, Montgrain PR, Proctor SP, Wendt CH, Wongtrakool C, Wan ES, Blanc PD, Redlich CA. Military Inhalational Exposures Outside the Theater of Conflict and Chronic Respiratory Symptoms. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jul 01; 8(7):e2522080. PMID: 40690216.
Published on 6/24/2025Bhatt SP, Abadi E, Anzueto A, Bodduluri S, Casaburi R, Castaldi PJ, Cho MH, Comellas AP, Conrad DJ, Curtis JL, Dass C, DeMeo DL, Dransfield MT, San José Estépar R, Flenaugh EL, Foreman MG, Fortis S, Gupta A, Han MK, Hanania NA, Hersh CP, Hokanson JE, Humphries SM, Kirby M, Kunisaki KM, Li PZ, Lynch DA, MacIntyre NR, Make BJ, Mannino DM, Martinez FJ, McEvoy CE, Miller BE, Moll M, Nakhmani A, Newell JD, Pratte KA, Regan EA, Reinhardt JM, Rennard SI, Rossiter HB, Strand MJ, Suri R, Wan ES, Wendt CH, Westney GE, Wilson CG, Wise RA, Young KA, Tan WC, Silverman EK, Crapo JD. A Multidimensional Diagnostic Approach for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. JAMA. 2025 Jun 24; 333(24):2164-2175. PMID: 40382791.
Published on 6/7/2025Sethi S, Wan ES, Tejwani V, Lamprey C, Aggarwal K, Dixon A, Pan Y, Siddharthan T. Burden of Exacerbations in Patients Newly Initiating an Inhaled Regimen for COPD: A Claims Analysis. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2025; 20:1829-1842. PMID: 40510054.
Published on 6/1/2025Fortis S, Strand M, Bhatt SP, Ten Eyck P, Wendt L, Parekh T, Han MK, Hokanson JE, Kinney G, Curtis JL, Bowler RP, Wan ES, Kunisaki KM, Wendt CH, Regan E, Dransfield M, Crapo JD, Silverman EK, Comellas AP. Respiratory Exacerbations and Lung Function Decline in People with Smoking History and Normal Spirometry. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Jun; 211(6):957-965. PMID: 39946437.
Published on 3/3/2025Robinson SA, Bamonti PM, Wan ES, Moy ML. Change in self-efficacy mediates the effect of a physical activity intervention in COPD. ERJ Open Res. 2025 Mar; 11(2). PMID: 40040900.
Published on 2/11/2025Kalra S, Hobbs B, Hunninghake GM, Menon AA, Putman R, Cutting C, Hatabu H, Silverman EK, Wan E, Cho MH, Moll M. The Association of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities and Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry With Mortality. Chest. 2025 Jul; 168(1):136-145. PMID: 39947315.
Published on 2/6/2025Gold DR, Carey VJ, Hersh CP, Wan E, Camargo CA, Lee IM, Cook NR, Nassikas N, Buring JE, Manson JE, Luttmann-Gibson H. Vitamin D Supplementation, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and Asthma Exacerbations, and Lung Function Decline. J Nutr. 2025 May; 155(5):1417-1428. PMID: 39922497.
Published on 2/1/2025Johnson SW, Wan ES, San Jose Estépar R, Nardelli P, Pistenmaa C, Piccari L, Nathan SD, Waxman AB, Washko GR, Rahaghi FN. Chest Computed Tomography to Improve Phenotyping in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Feb; 22(2):175-180. PMID: 39556097.