AlinaKungMD

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Attending physician / Postdoctoral Fellow at Mount Sinai

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Dr. Alina Kung currently practices inpatient palliative care in New York, NY. She received her medical degree from University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at UCLA followed by hospice and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Disparities in Aging and Dementia Program at Mount Sinai. Her current research interests include segregation and burdensome medical costs, and their impacts on health disparities for people living with serious illness. She has 5 publications and 35 citings.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalFellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2022 - 2023
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2019 - 2022
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2019
University of California, BerkeleyMS, Health and Medical Sciences, 2014 - 2017

PubMed

44 citations
Capacity to Address Social Needs Affects Primary Care Clinician Burnout
Alina Kung, Telly Cheung, Margae Knox, Rachel Willard-Grace, Jodi Halpern
Annals of Family Medicine. 2019-11-01
13 citations
Survival After Severe COVID-19: Long-Term Outcomes of Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit.
Thanh H Neville, Ron D Hays, Chi-Hong Tseng, Cynthia A Gonzalez, Lucia Chen
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2022-08-01
As Physicians, We Must Assert That Black Lives Matter.
Alina Kung
Academic Medicine. 2021-06-01

Journal Articles

Characteristics of cancer hospitals with written language access policies
Kung A, Li D, Lavery J, Narang B, Diamond L, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 9/22/2022
Cross-national comparisons of increasing suicidal mortality rates for Koreans in the Republic of Korea and Korean Americans in the USA, 2003-2012
Kung A, Hastings KG, Kapphahn KI, Wang EJ, Cullen MR, Ivey SL, Palaniappan LP, & Chung S, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2/27/2018