Chair of Pediatrics, Mass General for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
| 1985 | BS, McGill University |
| 1990 | MD, Harvard Medical School |
| 1998 | MPH, Harvard School of Public Health |
| 1990-1991 | Intern, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston |
| 1993-1994 | Resident, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston |
| 1994-1997 | Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Children's Hospital, Boston |
| 1996-1998 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Services Research, Children's Hospital |
| 1998-1999 | Fellow in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School |
| 1997- 2023 | Attending Physician, DFCI and Children's Hospital, Boston |
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1997- 2023 |
Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, DFCI and Boston Children's Hospital |
| 2008 - 2023 | Chief, Division of Pediatric Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, DFCI |
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH's research program is aimed at easing suffering and enhancing wellbeing in children with advanced cancer and their families. She completed a multi-centered randomized controlled trial aimed at evaluating the impact of routine provider and family child-reported feedback of symptom distress and quality of life scores in pediatric advanced cancer, using a handheld computer system, PediQUEST. She is currently conducting formative research to develop the next intervention, PediQUEST Response.
Dr. Wolfe also co-leads the Pediatric Palliative Care Research Network. She mentors several junior investigators in pediatric palliative care research. From an education perspective, Dr. Wolfe is the former co-director of the pediatric track of the program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) and is a co-investigator on the EPEC-Pediatrics project. In 2023, Dr. Wolfe became Chair of Pediatrics at the Mass General for Children at Massachusetts General Hospital.