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

Integrating behavioral health care into a low-barrier HIV clinic using the Collaborative Care Model: a mixed methods evaluation of patient care cascade outcomes and determinants.
(2025 May 5)
Implement Sci Commun 6(1): 53
Halliday S, Chwastiak LA, Zinsli K, Emerson R, Wood T, Ramchandani MS, Sherr K, Tsui JI, Wagenaar BH, Rao D, Dombrowski JC
Priorities for addressing mental health conditions and substance use disorders in prisons in sub-Saharan Africa: expert consensus from a Delphi panel.
(2025 Apr 15)
Lancet Psychiatry
Jack HE, Lovett A, Weldemariam H, Alem A, Dali S, Muduma S, Micheni M, Pienaar L, Sunkel C, Senter Z, Shaban M, Chwastiak L, Walker S, Ogunwale A
Innovations to Address Unmet Behavioral Health Needs in National Ending the HIV Epidemic Priority Jurisdictions.
(2025 Apr 15)
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 98(5S): e146-e155
Brown LL, Batchelder AW, Gondré-Lewis MC, Willie TC, Chwastiak LA
Effective Components of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis.
(2025 Mar 26)
JAMA Psychiatry
Schillok H, Gensichen J, Panagioti M, Gunn J, Junker L, Lukaschek K, Jung-Sievers C, Sterner P, Kaupe L, Dreischulte T, Ali MK, Aragonès E, Bekelman DB, Herbeck Belnap B, Carney RM, Chwastiak LA, Coventry PA, Davidson KW, Ekstrand ML, Flehr A, Fletcher S, Hölzel LP, Huijbregts K, Mohan V, Patel V, Richards DA, Rollman BL, Salisbury C, Simon GE, Srinivasan K, Unützer J, Wells KB, Zimmermann T, Bühner M, POKAL Group
Predicting control of cardiovascular disease risk factors in South Asia using machine learning.
(2024 Dec 10)
NPJ Digit Med 7(1): 357
Reuter A, Ali MK, Mohan V, Chwastiak L, Singh K, Narayan KMV, Prabhakaran D, Tandon N, Sudharsanan N
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