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

Department Affiliations

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Training Programs

Recent Publications

Social Vulnerability and Prevalence and Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.
(2024 Jul 24)
JAMA Psychiatry
Gibbons RD, Olfson M, Saulsberry L, Edlund MJ, Zangeneh S, Bareis N, Chwastiak L, Gibbons JB, Kessler RC
Factors influencing diabetes treatment satisfaction in the INtegrating DEPrEssioN and Diabetes treatmENT randomized clinical trial: A multilevel model analysis.
(2024 Jul 22)
Diabet Med
Cooper Z, Johnson L, Ali MK, Patel SA, Poongothai S, Mohan V, Anjana RM, Tandon N, Khadgawat R, Sridhar GR, Aravind SR, Sosale B, Sagar R, Shankar R, Sundari B, Kosari M, Venkat Narayan KM, Rao D, Chwastiak L
Supporting Implementation Through Online Learning Communities: Lessons Learned From a National Training and Technical Assistance Network.
(2024 Jun)
Eval Health Prof 47(2): 178-191
Olson JR, Walker ER, Chwastiak L, Druss BG, Molfenter T, Benson F, Cerrato A, Gotham HJ
Supporting psychosis research, implementation, and training through an academic intermediary-purveyor organization.
(2024 Apr 4)
Psychol Serv
Kopelovich SL, Brian RM, Vaswani-Bye A, Chwastiak L, McCain C, Shepard V, Zhang W, Tennison M, Fikre S, Monroe-DeVita M
Association of collaborative care intervention features with depression and metabolic outcomes in the INDEPENDENT study: A mixed methods study.
(2024 Jun)
Prim Care Diabetes 18(3): 319-326
Hassan S, Liu S, Johnson LCM, Patel SA, Emmert-Fees KMF, Suvada K, Tandon N, Sridhar GR, Aravind S, Poongothai S, Anjana RM, Mohan V, Chwastiak L, Ali MK
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