Alison Huang, MD, MPhil, MAS

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Professor in Residence
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Dr. Alison Huang is Professor of Medicine, Urology, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Director of Research for General Internal Medicine at UCSF Health; Director of the UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center; and a clinical scientist dedicated to advancing scientific understanding and improving management of the impact of aging on women’s health and genitourinary health. She leads a multidisciplinary team of clinical and translational scientists in investigating shared factors underlying relationships between common genitourinary health conditions and overlapping aging syndromes such as cognitive and physical function decline, sleep disruption, and depression. She has designed and led multiple NIH-funded randomized trials of pharmacologic, behavioral, and integrative health interventions in midlife and older women that leverage findings from her epidemiological research on urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, and menopause symptoms. She has also developed and validated patient-reported outcome measures of genitourinary health and function in midlife and older women of diverse backgrounds that have been adopted by investigators in the U.S. and internationally. She directs NIH-funded training programs and leads clinical research methodology courses for early-stage investigators based in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute. With the support of an NIH K24 mentoring award, she mentors early-stage investigators in designing and conducting clinical research studies on aging women's health and genitourinary health conditions. She serves as Editor in Chief of JAMA+ Trials, an online multimedia platform augmenting the clinical trials content of JAMA and the JAMA Network. She is a general internal medicine physician based in the UCSF Health's General Medicine Practice.

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