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MEET OUR PHYSICIAN

Judy Vu, MD

Board-CertifieD Internal Medicine Physician & Founder AND Owner of Jade Internal Medicine

Dr. Judy Vu pursued medicine with the goal of caring for patients through the breadth and depth of life. Her career began in academic medicine and hospital care, where she treated patients with highly complex medical conditions while teaching and mentoring future physicians.

Though Dr. Vu loved teaching, she knew her calling was at the bedside, directly helping patients understand their health conditions, address their medical concerns, and optimize their well-being. She eventually left academic medicine to focus more fully on direct patient care.

While caring for patients during some of the most vulnerable times of their lives, Dr. Vu was frequently asked if she had a private practice. Patients repeatedly wanted to continue seeing her after leaving the hospital. These experiences brought her back to the roots of why she pursued medicine — to form deeper, more meaningful, and long-term connections with patients.

As she worked through the COVID pandemic, Dr. Vu also gained a greater appreciation for the burnout physicians were facing in both inpatient and outpatient care. In reflecting on the best way to provide care, she recognized the power of direct primary care, where the physician-patient relationship is restored and physicians have the time and autonomy to offer unhurried, intimate, and in-depth care.

After five years as a physician partner at Seattle Medical Associates, Dr. Vu is proudly launching Jade Internal Medicine, her own direct primary care micropractice on First Hill. She looks forward to caring for her patients, supporting their health and well-being, and building lasting relationships in the decades to come.

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Our Mission

To provide a fundamentally different model of primary care—one built on time, continuity, and depth that puts you and your well-being first.

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More about Dr. Judy Vu

    • Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine

    • 2026 Seattle Met Top Doctor for Internal Medicine/Primary Care

    • Resident of the Year, University of Utah

    • Cameron C Lewis Humanism in Medicine Award, University of Utah

    • Physician Partner, Seattle Medical Associates, 2021 to 2026

    • Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Providence Swedish, 2016 to 2021

    • Clinical Instructor and Internal Medicine Hospitalist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2014 to 2016

    • Medical educator and mentor for medical students, residents, and other healthcare trainees at the University of Pittsburgh

  • Providence Swedish:

    • First Hill

    • Cherry Hill

    • Issaquah

    • Ballard

    • Edmonds

    • Certificate in Medical Education, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education, 2016

    • Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency, University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals and Clinics and Primary Children’s Hospital at Intermountain Healthcare, 2014

    • Doctor of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2010

    • Honors Bachelor of Science in Biological Chemistry, cum laude, University of Utah, 2006

  • Dr. Vu’s professional background includes publications, research presentations, speaking engagements, teaching and mentoring, medical leadership, and national service.

    For a complete list of Dr. Vu’s publications, presentations, teaching experience, leadership activities, national service, and professional recognition, view her full professional profile below.

    DR. VU’S FULL PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

    • Dr. Vu met her husband, Joshan, while she was an intern rotating through the emergency department. He was the infectious disease specialist she consulted about a patient with presumed malaria, and they connected over conversations about mosquitoes and blood smears. Since then, they have celebrated four wedding ceremonies and receptions, moved across the country twice, traveled the world, and welcomed two active and adventurous sons.

    • After moving from Salt Lake City to Pittsburgh and then to Seattle, Dr. Vu and her family built a close community in West Seattle, which they now consider their forever home. Her parents also moved to Seattle when their first grandchild arrived in 2018, although she has not yet convinced her two sisters and their families to join them.

    • Outside of medicine, Dr. Vu enjoys badminton, tennis, yoga, and Pilates, and hopes to add pickleball to the list. Through her sons, she is also learning more about swimming, basketball, soccer, and football.

Meet Our Team

Ciara Barney, a young woman smiling, is a Certified Medical Assistant and Phlebotomist at Jade Internal Medicine.

Ciara Barney

Certified Medical Assistant and Phlebotomist

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patients love dr. vu

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  • "Her bedside manner is great, as is her whole disposition and energy."

    We were fortunate to encounter Dr. Vu when our son was hospitalized in Swedish First Hill Hospital. She was his primary hospital physician. There are so many wonderful things we can say about her care for our son during his five-day stay in the hospital, including how thorough, knowledgeable and attentive she was. As parents, we very much appreciated how approachable and how invested she was, not to mention every day she made herself available to us no matter how busy she was. That is the kind of doctor you want to have on your side and by your side. We are so very grateful to Dr. Vu.

  • "I have deep appreciation for your skills, respect for your abilities, and admiration for your compassion and dedication to your patients and your vocation."

    Thank you for your careful attention to all my health needs over the time that we’ve worked together. Thank you for all you’ve done for me.

    – HC

  • "I wanted to drop you a line to thank you so much for the phenomenal care you've provided these last few years."

    I'm grateful for all of your care and wish you all the best on your exciting next steps!

    – AC

  • "I enjoyed having you as my physician."

    In the short time we worked together, I appreciate the wonderful care and guidance you provided. I wish you great success in your new practice. I will miss working with you.

    – RF

  • "I wanted to tell you how much I appreciated  your attending to my health all of these years."

    I wish you great success and I hope our paths cross again.

    – CB

  • "Your future patients will be very lucky."

    We have spent the last few weeks grappling with the very difficult decision of where to continue our medical care. We have decided, at least for the immediate future, to continue with the practice we have been with for close to thirty years. This is in no way a reflection on the wonderful experience we both have had with you. Your attentive, caring and very professional care has made this decision a very agonizing one. You will be dearly missed. We wish every success in your new practice.

    – KN & BN

  • "You have been a wonderful doctor for me."

    I am truly saddened that you are leaving SMA, a practice that I have been with, in its various forms, for thirty years. I wish you well in your new venture.

    – RB

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