Epernicus: Mitchell D Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

Mitchell D Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

Position:
Associate Professor

Medicine

General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA)
Advisor:
martin F shapiro
Degrees:

Ph.D., Health Services/Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

M.D., University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Past Advisors:

Mary Charlson (as Medical Resident)
Research:
My research identifies and measures the impact of risk factors, health behaviors and clinical care on the development of health disparities over the life course.
Other Experience:
2005-present Co-Director, UCLA NRSA Primary Care Fellowship

Communities:

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Mitchell Wong's Publications (30)

The association of stigma with self-reported access to medical care and antiretroviral therapy adherence in persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Sayles JN, Wong MD, Kinsler JJ, Martins D, Cunningham WE

Journal of general internal medicine. 2009 Oct;24(10):1101-8
The contribution of cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis and survival to racial differences in years of life expectancy.
Wong MD, Ettner SL, Boscardin WJ, Shapiro MF

Journal of general internal medicine. 2009 Apr;24(4):475-81
Role of religiosity and spirituality in complementary and alternative medicine use among cancer survivors in California.
Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Miller MF, Ambs AH, Goldstein MS, Smith A, Ballard-Barbash R, Becerra LS, Cheng EM, Wenger NS

Integrative cancer therapies. 2008 Sep;7(3):139-46
The association between life chaos, health care use, and health status among HIV-infected persons.
Wong MD, Sarkisian CA, Davis C, Kinsler J, Cunningham WE

Journal of general internal medicine. 2007 Sep;22(9):1286-91
The effect of perceived stigma from a health care provider on access to care among a low-income HIV-positive population.
Kinsler JJ, Wong MD, Sayles JN, Davis C, Cunningham WE

AIDS patient care and STDs. 2007 Aug;21(8):584-92
Living with HIV but without medical care: barriers to engagement.
Tobias CR, Cunningham W, Cabral HD, Cunningham CO, Eldred L, Naar-King S, Bradford J, Sohler NL, Wong MD, Drainoni ML

AIDS patient care and STDs. 2007 Jun;21(6):426-34
Time trends in failure to return for HIV test results.
Kinsler JJ, Cunningham WE, Davis C, Wong MD

Sexually transmitted diseases. 2007 Jun;34(6):397-400
Clinician gender is more important than gender concordance in quality of HIV care.
Beran MS, Cunningham W, Landon BE, Wilson IB, Wong MD

Gender medicine : official journal of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. 2007 Mar;4(1):72-84
Utilization of health care services in hard-to-reach marginalized HIV-infected individuals.
Cunningham CO, Sohler NL, Wong MD, Relf M, Cunningham WE, Drainoni ML, Bradford J, Pounds MB, Cabral HD

AIDS patient care and STDs. 2007 Mar;21(3):177-86
Type and pattern of illicit drug use and access to health care services for HIV-infected people.
Sohler NL, Wong MD, Cunningham WE, Cabral H, Drainoni ML, Cunningham CO

AIDS patient care and STDs. 2007;21 Suppl 1:S68-76
Complementary and alternative medicine use among Asian-American subgroups: prevalence, predictors, and lack of relationship to acculturation and access to conventional health care.
Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Goldstein MS, Becerra LS, Cheng EM, Wenger NS

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.). 2006 Dec;12(10):1003-10
Health services utilization for people with HIV infection: comparison of a population targeted for outreach with the U.S. population in care.
Cunningham WE, Sohler NL, Tobias C, Drainoni ML, Bradford J, Davis C, Cabral HJ, Cunningham CO, Eldred L, Wong MD

Medical care. 2006 Nov;44(11):1038-47
Factors associated with self-efficacy for condom use and sexual negotiation among South african youth.
Sayles JN, Pettifor A, Wong MD, MacPhail C, Lee SJ, Hendriksen E, Rees HV, Coates T

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). 2006 Oct 1;43(2):226-33
Residential segregation and Latino, black and white mortality in New York City.
Inagami S, Borrell LN, Wong MD, Fang J, Shapiro MF, Asch SM

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 2006 May;83(3):406-20
Variation in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use across racial/ethnic groups and the development of ethnic-specific measures of CAM use.
Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Goldstein MS, Yu HJ, Andersen RM, Brown ER, Becerra LM, Wenger NS

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.). 2006 Apr;12(3):281-90
The inability to take medications openly at home: does it help explain gender disparities in HAART use?
Sayles JN, Wong MD, Cunningham WE

Journal of women's health (2002). 2006 Mar;15(2):173-81
The contribution of specific causes of death to sex differences in mortality.
Wong MD, Chung AK, Boscardin WJ, Li M, Hsieh HJ, Ettner SL, Shapiro MF

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). 2006 Nov-Dec;121(6):746-54
Differences in cause-specific mortality between Latino and white adults.
Wong MD, Tagawa T, Hsieh HJ, Shapiro MF, Boscardin WJ, Ettner SL

Medical care. 2005 Oct;43(10):1058-62
The relationship between expectations for aging and physical activity among older adults.
Sarkisian CA, Prohaska TR, Wong MD, Hirsch S, Mangione CM

Journal of general internal medicine. 2005 Oct;20(10):911-5
Predictors and consequences of negative physician attitudes toward HIV-infected injection drug users.
Ding L, Landon BE, Wilson IB, Wong MD, Shapiro MF, Cleary PD

Archives of internal medicine. 2005 Mar 28;165(6):618-23
Does racial concordance between HIV-positive patients and their physicians affect the time to receipt of protease inhibitors?
King WD, Wong MD, Shapiro MF, Landon BE, Cunningham WE

Journal of general internal medicine. 2004 Nov;19(11):1146-53
Racial and ethnic differences in patients' preferences for initial care by specialists.
Wong MD, Asch SM, Andersen RM, Hays RD, Shapiro MF

The American journal of medicine. 2004 May 1;116(9):613-20
Disparities in HIV treatment and physician attitudes about delaying protease inhibitors for nonadherent patients.
Wong MD, Cunningham WE, Shapiro MF, Andersen RM, Cleary PD, Duan N, Liu HH, Wilson IB, Landon BE, Wenger NS

Journal of general internal medicine. 2004 Apr;19(4):366-74
Complementary and alternative medicine use and substitution for conventional therapy by HIV-infected patients.
Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Kanouse DE, Collins RL, Liu H, Andersen RM, Gifford AL, McCutchan A, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Wenger NS

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). 2003 Jun 1;33(2):157-65
Physician specialization and antiretroviral therapy for HIV.
Landon BE, Wilson IB, Cohn SE, Fichtenbaum CJ, Wong MD, Wenger NS, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Cleary PD

Journal of general internal medicine. 2003 Apr;18(4):233-41

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