Dr. Carrie Wong is a transplant hepatologist, fellow in the Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and Ph.D. candidate in the Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at UCLA.  Dr. Wong received her bachelor’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley and medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.  She completed her clinical training in the Yale Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program and gastroenterology and advanced transplant hepatology fellowships at UCLA.

Dr. Wong’s research studies the relationship between social risks, health care access and delivery, and health outcomes in adult populations with chronic liver disease.  Her research leverages epidemiological and health services methods to perform risk assessments in populations with chronic liver disease to achieve earlier detection of liver disease and reduce barriers to health care access and utilization for groups with socioeconomic disparities.