UlaHwangMD

Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

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Ula Hwang, MD, is an emergency medicine specialist based in New York, NY. She completed her medical education at the New York University School of Medicine and has had various residencies and internships, including at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hospital and in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Hwang holds professional engagements as a Professor at New York University Langone Health, adjunct Professor at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and as a physician scientist at James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She has several academic publications, mainly within the domain of geriatrics in emergency medicine, and is currently involved in a building a a research infrastructure to study and optimize emergency care for older adults and persons living with dementia.

Yale School of MedicineRobert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Health Services Research, 2002 - 2004
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1998 - 2002
NYU Grossman School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 1997 - 1998
New York University School of MedicineClass of 1997

PubMed

The PRO-AGE Tool and Its Association With Post Discharge Outcomes in Older Adults Admitted From the Emergency Department.
Inessa Cohen, Pedro K Curiati, Christian V Morinaga, Ling Han, Tanish Gandhi
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2025-01-22
Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities: Implications for the Emergency Medicine Clinician.
Megan A Rech, Christopher R Carpenter, Neelum T Aggarwal, Ula Hwang
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2025-01-17
3 citations
Racial, Ethnic, and Age-Related Disparities in Sedation and Restraint Use for Older Adults in the Emergency Department.
Patelle Jivalagian, Cameron J Gettel, Colin M Smith, Leah Robinson, Morgan Brinker
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2025-01-01

Journal Articles

Association of a Geriatric Emergency Department Innovation Program with Cost Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Ula Hwang, Lynne D Richardson, Amer Aldeen, Kevin M Baumlin, Corita R Grudzen, JAMA Network Open
Research Article Using Music to Reduce Anxiety Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Pilot Study
Ula Hwang, MD, ScienceDirect

Iscoe Receives YCCI Scholar Award for AI Research on Drug ReactionsJuly 10th, 2024
Improving Emergency Care for Older AdultsAugust 17th, 2022
Researchers Identify Ways to Improve Emergency Care for People Living with DementiaAugust 8th, 2022
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