Research Associate
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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.
Publications
Facilitators of and barriers to Medicaid investment in electronic consultation services.
The American journal of managed care
Neighborhood Health and Outcomes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Relative environmental and social disadvantage in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Thorax
In: Wuyts WA, Cottin V, Spagnolo P, et al., eds. Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Diseases (ERS Monograph)
Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features.
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to CSF Leak and Intracranial Hypotension: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Case reports in neurological medicine