Lucinda Leung is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a general internal medicine physician at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, who teaches medical students and residents, as well as cares for hospitalized and clinic patients. Dr. Leung was a first-generation college student who earned her A.B. at Dartmouth College, M.D. at Brown Medical School, M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health, and Ph.D. at UCLA School of Public Health. She completed fellowship through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation VA Clinical Scholars Program and was selected Chief Fellow for UCLA’s Specialty Training and Advanced Research Program. Dr. Leung is a board-certified Clinical Informatics subspecialist.
Lucinda B. Leung is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also an Investigator at the Center for Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) and a general internal medicine physician at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Dr. Leung’s expertise is in health services research to optimize care for primary care patients with mental health needs. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary team-based care models augmented by virtual care modalities. Partnering with healthcare system leaders in the Veterans Health Administration and large health care organizations, Dr. Leung studies how to integrate mental health services into primary care practice (e.g., patient-centered medical home, collaborative care for depression, telemedicine), as well as its impact on care utilization, quality, and costs across populations, especially among veterans and safety-net patients. She and her research team employ wide-ranging methodologies (e.g., mixed methods research, cohort studies, causal inference, pragmatic clinical trials, implementation science) to understand how to redesign health services to help ensure the best outcomes at the highest value. Dr. Leung has been awarded more than 5 million dollars in federal funding (e.g., National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA series) and covered by major news outlets (e.g., LA Times, CBS). She has provided expert consultation to federal and state agencies (e.g., Government Accountability Office) and spoken on national and international stages (e.g., World Health Summit). Dr. Leung was named by the National Academy of Medicine as 1 of 10 Emerging Leaders in Health & Medicine Scholars nationally and selected as 1 of 20 Young Physician Leaders (representing U.S.A.) globally by the InterAcademy Partnership.