Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH
Clinician-investigator Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH, of the HSR Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at VA Greater Los Angeles, has been successfully nominated by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and selected to join the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Young Physician Leaders program at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany in October.
Every year, NAM and other IAP member academies each nominate up to two candidates for selection into this program of approximately 20 young physician leaders across the world. As part of the nomination, NAM cited Dr. Leung’s ongoing research and quality improvement efforts to increase mental healthcare access and prevent suicide, especially among Veterans.
Dr. Lucinda Leung is a general internal medicine physician and health services researcher. Her work focuses on innovating team-based care models (e.g., patient-centered medical home, collaborative care models) to improve health outcomes for primary care patients with both physical and mental health comorbidities. She conducts quality improvement and operations-partnered research activities as part of the VISN 22 Veterans Assessment & Improvement Laboratory and the Primary Care Analytics Team, where she leads national evaluations of VA primary care-based initiatives and innovates upon Primary Care-Mental Health Integration models across VA clinics locally and regionally. Dr. Leung is also a VA HSR Career Development Awardee, and last year, was named by the NAM as one of 10 emerging leaders in health and medicine.
The IAP Young Physician Leaders program trains emerging leaders working in medicine and public health as clinicians, educators, researchers and health policymakers in health systems around the world, and links them together in a peer-support network to improve health in their countries and globally.
