Biography

Andrea (Annie) Hoopes, MD, MPH, (she/her) is an adolescent medicine physician-researcher whose research aims to address adolescent health care inequity with a specific focus on sexual and reproductive health care. Adolescent health care inequity occurs when teens do not have the same access to and quality of care as adults or younger children, resulting in worse health outcomes for teens. As an adolescent medicine clinician with over a decade of patient care experience, Annie has cared for thousands of young patients struggling to navigate health systems that were not designed for them. This clinical experience motivates her research projects and collaborations, all of which center around co-designing, implementing, and studying interventions to support and innovate how teens receive health care.

After attending medical school in her home state at The Ohio State University — which included a year-long applied epidemiology fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination — she completed her residency, fellowship, and Master of Public Health here in Seattle at University of Washington. Her first faculty role was at University of Colorado in Denver, where she also served as a medical director for a primary care clinic for teen parents and their children.  She later transitioned to Kaiser Permanente Washington, where she practices as an adolescent medicine specialist in the Adolescent Center, caring for teens with intersecting medical and mental health issues such as eating disorders and gender dysphoria.

Annie became an adjunct investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) in 2020 — initially collaborating on a project to expand integrated mental health screening to teens ages 13 to 17 at Kaiser Permanente Washington.  She was awarded a CATALyST Learning Health System K12 grant — funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) — to study opportunities for an online patient portal to address adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health care needs. She joined the faculty at KPWHRI as an acting assistant investigator in October 2021, where she has since focused her research on the nexus of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, patient-provider communication, and health information technology. She is a faculty member on the IMPACT Center — funded by the National Institute of Mental Health — specifically providing support for youth engagement activities and advancing implementation methods informed by human-centered design principles.

Annie gravitates toward projects that center on patient engagement, apply mixed-methods and human-centered design thinking, and involve collaborators passionate about using research as a systems improvement tool. At KPWHRI, she is developing a research team specializing in youth-engaged co-design, health system collaboration, and adolescent health care transformation. She has been recognized as a national leader in adolescent health care, receiving the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health’s Emerging Leader Award in 2017 and being recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as a "40 under 40" honoree in 2020. She co-edited the textbook Technology and Adolescent Health: In Schools and Beyond — 1st Edition.  In addition to serving on the faculty at KPWHRI, she holds adjunct faculty positions at University of Washington and Washington State University schools of medicine. 

She lives in Seattle with her wife and their children, where she enjoys being in or on the water as often as possible, cooking with her family, and exploring local neighborhoods on long walks or bike rides together.