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

Department Affiliations

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Recent Publications

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
Effects of Integrated Care Approaches to Address Co-occurring Depression and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
(2024 Dec 1)
Diabetes Care 47(12): 2291-2304
Cooper ZW, O'Shields J, Ali MK, Chwastiak L, Johnson LCM
Formative qualitative research to guide implementation of the Collaborative Care Model in a low-barrier HIV clinic.
(2025 Jan)
AIDS Care 37(1): 74-87
Halliday S, Dombrowski JC, Emerson R, Beima-Sofie K, Chwastiak LA, Sherr K, Tsui JI, Wagenaar BH, Rao D
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