Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH
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
Centers/Programs
- UW Consortium for Global Mental Health
- Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center
- Integrated Care Training Program (ICTP)
- Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Northwest MHTTC)
- Division of Population Health
- Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) at Harborview Medical Center
- Supporting Psychosis Innovation through Research, Implementation, and Training (SPIRIT) Center
Training Programs
Recent Publications
(2024 Dec 1)
Diabetes Care 47(12): 2291-2304
Cooper ZW, O'Shields J, Ali MK, Chwastiak L, Johnson LCM
(2024 Nov 12)
AIDS Care
Halliday S, Dombrowski JC, Emerson R, Beima-Sofie K, Chwastiak LA, Sherr K, Tsui JI, Wagenaar BH, Rao D
(2024 Dec 1)
JAMA Psychiatry 81(12): 1265-1269
Teufel F, Aggarwal A, Chwastiak L, Patel V, Ali MK
(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
(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
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