Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Co-Director for Faculty Development

Co-Director, Northwest MHTTC

lchwast@uw.edu

206-744-4840

Personal Statement

​I have focused my clinical and research interests on the complex intersection of chronic medical illness and serious mental illness. I have had clinical training in both internal medicine and psychiatry, and my clinical work over the past decade has included the provision of inpatient and outpatient medical care within an urban community mental health center. Through an NIMH-funded K23 (career development award), I have investigated the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among veterans with serious mental illness, and the healthcare costs and disparities of this vulnerable population. My current projects include an NIDDK (R21) grant to develop and pilot test an innovative community mental health center-based team approach to the treatment of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes among outpatients with schizophrenia.

Education

Yale University School of Medicine Teaching Appointment, 2012
Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Medical education, 1993
Univ. of Colorado H.S.C. (Medicine) Residency, Internal Medicine
Univ. of Colorado H.S.C. (Medicine) Internship, Internal Medicine
Univ. of Calif. San Francisco (Psyc) Residency, Psychiatry

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Recent Publications

Formative qualitative research to guide implementation of the Collaborative Care Model in a low-barrier HIV clinic.
(2024 Nov 12)
AIDS Care
Halliday S, Dombrowski JC, Emerson R, Beima-Sofie K, Chwastiak LA, Sherr K, Tsui JI, Wagenaar BH, Rao D
Depression Diagnosis, Treatment, and Remission Among Adults in India.
(2024 Oct 30)
JAMA Psychiatry
Teufel F, Aggarwal A, Chwastiak L, Patel V, Ali MK
Characterizing Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Results of the U.S. Mental and Substance Use Disorders Prevalence Study.
(2024 Sep 23)
Psychiatr Serv
Bareis N, Edlund M, Ringeisen H, Guyer H, Dixon LB, Olfson M, Smith TE, Chwastiak L, Monroe-DeVita M, Swartz M, Swanson J, Sinclair Hancq E, Geiger P, Kreski NT, Stroup TS
Sociodemographic associated factors with non-disclosure of HIV sero-status to sexual partners in Maputo, Mozambique.
(2024 Sep 17)
Sci Rep 14(1): 21736
Mudender F, Paredes Z, Maiela A, Vio F, Amane G, Mamudo A, Uamir R, Paude E, Couto A, Bello S, Ruano M, Wate J, McDowell M, Chwastiak L, Lane J, Nacarapa E
A mediation analysis evaluating change in self-stigma on diabetes outcomes among people with depression in urban India: A secondary analysis from the INDEPENDENT trial of the collaborative care model.
(2024)
PLOS Glob Public Health 4(9): e0003624
Halliday S, Rao D, Augusto O, Poongothai S, Sosale A, Sridhar GR, Tandon N, Sagar R, Patel SA, Narayan KMV, Johnson LCM, Wagenaar BH, Huh D, Flaherty BP, Chwastiak LA, Ali MK, Mohan V, INDEPENDENT Study Group
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