Wenxia (Joy) Wu

With a PhD in Education and a M.S in Health Informatics, Dr. Joy Wu has been serving as a Senior Instructional Designer for the School of Nursing at GWU since 2019. Prior to GWU, she served as Assistant Professor and Instructional Designer at Eastern Virginia Medical School and a similar position at Frank University for 10 years.

Being an instructional designer for more than 17 years, Dr. Wu is dedicated to enhancing educational quality through instructional design, curriculum mapping, and faculty development. Her dedication has earned her recognition with several university and Dean’s awards, including the prestigious Wagner Award for Outstanding Instructional Support at a national conference.

Dr. Wu also brought with her 18 years of higher education teaching experience. She teaches in the fields of Health Professions Education, Health Informatics, and Instructional Design and Technology. Her excellence in online teaching garnered her a national nomination.

As a published educational researcher, Dr. Wu's research interests include eLearning, assessment, and competency-based education. Her scholarly contributions include a book chapter on Competency-based Education in Health Professions Education, which received an honorable mention for the UPCEA 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature.