Mitchell Wong
Professor
General Internal Medicine
University of California los Angeles
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Mitchell Wong is a Professor of Medicine at UCLA in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and Executive Vice Chair of Medical Research Training in the Department of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1989 and his medical degree from UC San Francisco in 1994. He obtained his clinical training in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. After completing a PhD in Health Services Research from the UCLA School of Public Health, he joined the UCLA faculty in 2001. Dr. Wong is co-director of the Education Core of the UCLA CTSI, Director of the CTSI KL2 Program, Executive co-Director of the UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program, and co-Director of the UCLA NRSA Primary Care Fellowship. In these roles, he mentors and oversees the research training for over 60 fellows and junior faculty members across the spectrum of science including basic science, clinical trials and translational research, and health services research. His research focuses on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care and outcomes, population health, demography and how disparities arise over the life course. He has developed the Racial/Ethnic Disparities Simulation Model, a Markov model, which simulates multiple chronic diseases over the life course for a cohort of adults.
Research Interest
His research focuses on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care and outcomes, population health, demography and how disparities arise over the life course. He has developed the Racial/Ethnic Disparities Simulation Model, a Markov model, which simulates multiple chronic diseases over the life course for a cohort of adults.
Publications
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Hosmer Wylie, Malin Jennifer, Wong Mitchell Development and validation of a prediction model for the risk of developing febrile neutropenia in the first cycle of chemotherapy among elderly patients with breast, lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2011; 19(3): 333-41.
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Rickard Diana G, Dudovitz Rebecca N, Wong Mitchell D, Jen Howard C, Osborn Rebecca D, Fernandez Hilda E, Donkor Clement I Closing the gap between insecticide treated net ownership and use for the prevention of malaria Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 2011; 5(2): 123-31.
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Bharmal Nazleen, Tseng Chi-Hong, Kaplan Robert, Wong Mitchell D State-level variations in racial disparities in life expectancy Health services research, 2012; 47(1 Pt 2): 544-55.
