Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Co-Director for Faculty Development

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

Applying implementation science in mental health services: Technical assistance cases from the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) network.
(2022 Jan 19)
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 75(): 1-9
Gotham HJ, Cummings JR, Dolce JN, Druss B, Gill KJ, Kopelovich SL, Molfenter T, Olson JR, Benson F, Chwastiak L
Minimum and optimal numbers of psychiatric beds: expert consensus using a Delphi process.
(2022 Jan 21)
Mol Psychiatry
Mundt AP, Rozas Serri E, Irarrázaval M, O'Reilly R, Allison S, Bastiampillai T, Musisi S, Kagee A, Golenkov A, El-Khoury J, Park SC, Chwastiak L, Priebe S
Effect of a collaborative care model on anxiety symptoms among patients with depression and diabetes in India: The INDEPENDENT randomized clinical trial.
(2021 Nov 27)
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 74(): 39-45
Kemp CG, Johnson LCM, Sagar R, Poongothai S, Tandon N, Anjana RM, Aravind S, Sridhar GR, Patel SA, Emmert-Fees K, Rao D, Narayan KMV, Mohan V, Ali MK, Chwastiak LA
Intervening for HIV prevention and mental health: a review of global literature.
(2021 Jun)
J Int AIDS Soc 24 Suppl 2(): e25710
Collins PY, Velloza J, Concepcion T, Oseso L, Chwastiak L, Kemp CG, Simoni J, Wagenaar BH
Central Assessment of Psychosis Service: A Tele-evaluation Service to Support Early Identification of Psychosis.
(2022 Jan 1)
Psychiatr Serv 73(1): 112-115
Kopelovich S, Maura J, Chwastiak L, Towle C, Monroe-DeVita M
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