Selected Publications

• Gill Peter J, Wang Kay Y, Mant David, Hartling Lisa, Heneghan Carl, Perera Rafael, Klassen Terry, and Harnden Anthony (2011) The evidence base for interventions delivered to children in primary care: an overview of cochrane systematic reviews. PLoS One, 6(8):e23051.

• Wang K, Chalker V, Bermingham A, Harrison T, Mant D, and Harnden A (2011) Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Respiratory Virus Infections in Children With Persistent Cough in England: A Retrospective Analysis. Pediatr Infect Dis J.

• Wang K and Harnden A (2010) Pertussis-induced cough. Pulm Pharmacol Ther.

• Wang Kay, Harnden Anthony, and Thomson Anne (2010) Foreign body inhalation in children. BMJ, 341:c3924.

• Wang Kay Y, Seed Paul, Schofield Peter, Ibrahim Saima, and Ashworth Mark (2009) Which practices are high antibiotic prescribers? A cross-sectional analysis. Br J Gen Pract, 59(567):e315-20.

Dr Kay Wang

I am a General Practitioner and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. I graduated from the University of Cambridge with triple First Class Honours in 2001 (pre-clinical medicine) and from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2004 (clinical medicine).  I trained as a General Practitioner in London.  From 2008-9 I was an Honorary Research Fellow at King’s College London School of Medicine where I developed an interest in antibiotic prescribing in primary care.

I returned to Oxford after being awarded a National Institute for Health Research Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2009.  At the moment, my main areas of research interest are respiratory tract infections and persistent cough in primary care.  Around 1 in 4 people who develop an acute respiratory tract infection continue coughing for 2 weeks or longer.  This may occur if an acute infection becomes persistent or a secondary infection develops.

I am currently involved in conducting two studies looking at patients who see their General Practitioner because of a persistent cough:

1.      CAPS – an observational study examining the prevalence of whooping cough and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with persistent cough.   
2.      MAC – a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial of montelukast in adults with persistent cough in primary care.