Alison DeDent • UCSF Profiles

Alison DeDent, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	505 Parnassus Avenue, #M1090 San Francisco CA 94117
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ORCID	0000-0002-8869-0258
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Biography

Education and Training

University of California, San Francisco	MAS	2022	Master's Degree in Clinical Research
University of California, San Francisco		2020	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
University of California, San Francisco	Clinical Fellowship	2020	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Colorado	Residency	2017	Internal Medicine
University of Toledo College of Medicine	MD	2014
The Ohio State University	BS	2009	Biology

Awards and Honors

University of Toledo College of Medicine

2014

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

Overview

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.

Interests

Health Disparities, Interstital Lung Disease, Implementation Science, Health Services Research, Telehealth, General Pulmonary Medicine, Intensive Care

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Telehealth Expansion and Access to Interstitial Lung Disease Specialty Care for Rural Populations
American Thoracic Society Award in Interstitial Lung Disease Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
Role: Principal Investigator

Implementation of a Virtual Interstitial Lung Disease Multidisciplinary Team Meeting with Providers Practicing in Underserved Areas: a Pilot Study
Nina Ireland Foundation for Lung Health Jan 9, 2023 - Jan 8, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

Development of a Telehealth Intervention Targeting Barriers to Early Guideline-Concordant Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Care for Rural Populations
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation PFF Scholars Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2024
Role: Principal Investigator

Bibliographic

Publications

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Neighborhood Health and Outcomes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Mar; 21(3):402-410. DeDent AM, Collard HR, Thakur N. PMID: 37962494; PMCID: PMC10913773.

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Disparities in Antifibrotic Medication Utilization Among Veterans With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Chest. 2023 08; 164(2):441-449. Kaul B, Lee JS, Petersen LA, McCulloch C, Rosas IO, Bandi VD, Zhang N, DeDent AM, Collard HR, Whooley MA. PMID: 36801465; PMCID: PMC10410245.

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Disparities in Rural Populations With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Chest. 2022 Sep; 162(3):630-634. DeDent AM, Collard HR, Thakur N. PMID: 35390330; PMCID: PMC9470744.

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Relative environmental and social disadvantage in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Thorax. 2022 Dec; 77(12):1237-1242. Avitzur N, Noth EM, Lamidi M, Nathan SD, Collard HR, DeDent AM, Thakur N, Johannson KA. PMID: 34949724.

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Vaccine-induced interstitial lung disease: a rare reaction to COVID-19 vaccination. Thorax. 2022 01; 77(1):9-10. DeDent AM, Farrand E. PMID: 34510014.

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In: Wuyts WA, Cottin V, Spagnolo P, et al., eds. Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Diseases (ERS Monograph). Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features. 2019; 140-152. DeDent AM, Fischer A. View Publication.
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to CSF Leak and Intracranial Hypotension: A Case Report and Literature Review. Case Rep Neurol Med. 2015; 2015:538523. Hammad T, DeDent A, Algahtani R, Alastal Y, Elmer L, Medhkour A, Safi F, Assaly R. PMID: 26106495; PMCID: PMC4461750.

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