Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

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

Response to Author Regarding Letter to the Editor: The Influence of Depression, Positive Health Behaviors, and Weight Status on Glycated Hemoglobin: A Sequential Mediation Analysis of the INDEPENDENT Trial.
(2026 Mar 16)
J Gen Intern Med
Cooper ZW, Johnson LCM, Patel SA, Aravind SR, Tandon N, Anjana RM, Poongothai S, Sridhar GR, Mohan V, Chwastiak L, Ali MK
From clinics to communities: community health workers' perspectives on taking on the behavioral health care manager role for community-based geriatric depression treatment.
(2026 Feb 22)
Aging Ment Health
Wang MZ, Steinman L, Ko L, Bertero MG, Raue PJ, Chwastiak L, Fillipo IG, Hannon P
HIV Testing and Prevention Services in Behavioral Health Organizations: A Multi-method Study Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.
(2025 Dec 3)
AIDS Behav
Chwastiak LA, Reichman M, Sylla L, Hutcheson R, Clayton C, Dombrowski JC, Katz DA
Implementing mHealth for Schizophrenia in Community Mental Health Settings: Hybrid Type 3 Effectiveness-Implementation Trial.
(2025 Dec 1)
Psychiatr Serv 76(12): 1091-1098
Ben-Zeev D, Tauscher J, Sandel-Fernandez D, Buck B, Kopelovich S, Lyon AR, Chwastiak L, Marcus SC
Impact of insurance type on outpatient mental health treatment of US adults.
(2025 May)
PLOS Ment Health 2(5):
Chwastiak LA, Graupensperger S, Ringeisen H, Edlund M, Guyer H, Bareis N, Monroe-Devita M, Dixon L, Stroup S, Swanson J, Swartz M, Hancq ES, Gibbons R, Kessler RC, Olfson M
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