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Office Address
3939 Woodward Ave.
3rd Floor
Detroit, MI 48201
Assistant
Hillary Bruce | 313-577-1421
Administrator
Andrew Disbrow | 313-577-8868
Office Phone
Phone: 313-577-0244
Fax: 313-577-6718
Biography
Jinping Xu, M.D., M.S., is chair of the Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences.
Dr. Xu joined the faculty in 2001 and is a board-certified family physician with a master’s degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis. She is a member of the Division of Population Health Sciences and a faculty member of the Master’s of Public Health graduate program, as well as a member of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s Population Studies and Prevention Program. Dr. Xu is the director of MetroNet, a primary care practice-based research network in metropolitan Detroit with goals of supporting evidence-based primary care and reducing racial disparities in health outcomes.
As an accomplished physician-scientist, Dr. Xu has been continuously funded for the last 15 years by various funding agencies, including the federal and state government, the American Cancer Society, and state and local foundations. She is widely published, and her research interests include primary care, cancer control and prevention, and helping patients make more informed decisions. An attending physician at the Wayne Health center at Ascension Crittenton Hospital, Dr. Xu is vice chair of the Professional Development Committee of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine Cost Analyses Working Group and the Committee on Cancer Research in Primary Care Interest Group of the North American Primary Care Research Group. She teaches medical students and residents in an ambulatory setting, and has mentored many junior members of our faculty.
Dr. Xu, a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, received her medical degree in 1985 and her master’s of medical science degree in 1988 from Shandong Medical University in China. She completed Family Medicine residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. She received a master’s of science degree in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan in 2005.