Alison DeDent, MD

Assistant Professor

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.
Education
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 California, San Francisco
Residency, 2017 - Internal Medicine, University of Colorado
MD, 2014 - , University of Toledo College of Medicine
BS, 2009 - Biology, The Ohio State University
Honors and Awards
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 2014
Publications

  1. DeDent AM, Collard HR, Thakur N. Neighborhood Health and Outcomes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023. PMID: 37962494


  2. Kaul B, Lee JS, Petersen LA, McCulloch C, Rosas IO, Bandi VD, Zhang N, DeDent AM, Collard HR, Whooley MA. Disparities in Antifibrotic Medication Utilization Among Veterans with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Chest 2023. PMID: 36801465


  3. DeDent AM, Collard HR, Thakur N. Disparities in Rural Populations with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022. PMID: 35390330


  4. Avitzur N, Noth EM, Lamidi M, Nathan SD, Collard HR, DeDent AM, Thakur N, Johannson KA. Relative environmental and social disadvantage in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34949724


  6. DeDent AM, Fischer A. In: Wuyts WA, Cottin V, Spagnolo P, et al., eds. Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Diseases (ERS Monograph) Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features. 2019. PMID:


  7. Hammad T, DeDent A, Algahtani R, Alastal Y, Elmer L, Medhkour A, Safi F, Assaly R. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to CSF Leak and Intracranial Hypotension: A Case Report and Literature Review. Case reports in neurological medicine 2015. PMID: 26106495