Alison Hwong, MD, PhD
Fellow
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Psychiatric Research Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association, 2019-2021

Education & Training

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• National Clinician Scholars Program UCSF 2022
• Adult Psychiatry Residency UCSF 2020
• M.D. Harvard Medical School 2016
• Ph.D. Health Policy Harvard University 2016

Grants and Projects

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• Network-based Health Interventions in Rural Honduras, NIH, 2013-2016

Publications (22)

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TrustDisclosureBreast NeoplasmsConflict of InterestPhysiciansMental Health ServicesSuicidePsychiatryMental DisordersSmoking CessationClimate ChangeSchizophreniaEarly Detection of CancerDrug IndustryMental Health

• Comorbidities, healthcare use, and contact with healthcare transition services in older veterans after incarceration.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Hwong AR, Barry LC, Li Y, Byers AL
• Racial Disparities in Emergency Department Physical Restraint Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Eswaran V, Molina MF, Hwong AR, Dillon DG, Alvarez L, Allen IE, Wang RC
• Comorbidity profiles in older patients last seen by mental health prior to suicide attempt.
  Aging & mental health 2023 Morin RT, Li Y, Karel MJ, Consolino T, Hwong A, Clark R, Byers AL
• CRANIUM: a quasi-experimental study to improve metabolic screening and HIV testing in community mental health clinics compared to usual care.
  BMC psychiatry 2022 Hwong AR, Chagwedera DN, Thomas M, Niu G, Quan J, Vittinghoff E, Schillinger D, Newcomer JW, Gonzalez A, Essock S, Mangurian C
• Breast Cancer Screening Rates Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Schizophrenia.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2022 Hwong AR, Vittinghoff E, Thomas M, Hermida R, Walkup J, Crystal S, Olfson M, Mangurian C

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• Climate change and mental health research methods, gaps, and priorities: a scoping review.
  The Lancet. Planetary health 2022 Hwong AR, Wang M, Khan H, Chagwedera DN, Grzenda A, Doty B, Benton T, Alpert J, Clarke D, Compton WM
• Lessons Learned From a New Reverse-Integration Model to Improve Primary Care Screening in Community Mental Health Settings.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2022 Mangurian C, Thomas MD, Mitsuishi F, Goldman LE, Niu G, Handley MA, Riano NS, Hwong A, Essock S, Dilley J, Newcomer JW, Schillinger D
• Impact of a Same-Day Breast Biopsy Program on Disparities in Time to Biopsy for Patients With Serious Mental Illness.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2022 Wang GX, Hwong AR, Mercaldo SF, Lehman CD, Dontchos BN
• The Effects of Climate Change on Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Clinical Considerations.
  Current psychiatry reports 2021 van Nieuwenhuizen A, Hudson K, Chen X, Hwong AR
• Development and Implementation of a Chief Resident for Research Role in a Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2021 Hwong AR, Morgan S, Young CA, Besterman AD, Jacob M, Williams J, Reus VI, Mathews CA, Hung E, Voglmaier S
• Climate Change and Mental Health: Implications for the Psychiatric Workforce.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2021 Hwong AR, Kuhl EA, Compton WM, Benton T, Grzenda A, Doty B, Thompson L, Gogtay N, Clarke D, Alpert J
• Smoking cessation treatment for individuals with comorbid diabetes and serious mental illness in an integrated health care delivery system.
  Addictive behaviors 2020 Hwong AR, Schmittdiel J, Schillinger D, Newcomer JW, Essock S, Zhu Z, Dyer W, Young-Wolff KC, Mangurian C
• Reducing global disparities in cancer screening for people with mental illness.
  The lancet. Psychiatry 2019 Hwong AR, Irwin KE
• Breast Cancer Screening in Women With Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2019 Hwong A, Wang K, Bent S, Mangurian C
• Improving Breast Cancer Screening and Care for Women With Severe Mental Illness.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017 Hwong AR, Mangurian C
• The Effects of Public Disclosure of Industry Payments to Physicians on Patient Trust: A Randomized Experiment.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Hwong AR, Sah S, Lehmann LS
• Social network targeting to maximise population behaviour change: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
  Lancet (London, England) 2015 Kim DA, Hwong AR, Stafford D, Hughes DA, O'Malley AJ, Fowler JH, Christakis NA
• Scaling up mental healthcare in the Republic of Niger: priorities for and barriers to service improvement
  Br J Psych International 2015 Hwong A, Douma DM, Zamo S, Eaton J
• A systematic review of state and manufacturer physician payment disclosure websites: implications for implementation of the Sunshine Act.
  The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2014 Hwong AR, Qaragholi N, Carpenter D, Joffe S, Campbell EG, Soleymani Lehmann L
• Putting The Patient At The Center Of The Physician Payment Sunshine Act
  Putting The Patient At The Center Of The Physician Payment Sunshine Act 2012 Hwong A, Lehmann L
• Global pattern of experienced and anticipated discrimination against people with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional survey.
  Lancet (London, England) 2009 Thornicroft G, Brohan E, Rose D, Sartorius N, Leese M, INDIGO Study Group
• High-frequency afferent stimulation induces long-term potentiation of field potentials in the ventral tegmental area.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2007 Nugent FS, Hwong AR, Udaka Y, Kauer JA