Dr. Alison DeDent specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine and sub-specializes in interstitial lung disease. She attends in the UCSF Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Clinic, the UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the UCSF Neuro ICU, and the ZSFG Fellow's Chest Clinic.

Her clinical research focuses on identifying, understanding, and addressing geographic (rural and low-income urban) and socioeconomic health disparities in interstitial lung disease (ILD) using implementation science, with the goal of designing innovative telehealth interventions that seek to improve health equity, access to care, and outcomes in vulnerable populations with ILD.