Tung Nguyen, MD
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Dr. Nguyen is Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF, where he provides primary care to a diverse patient population and teaches students, clinicians, and researchers. He is the Co-Director of the Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project, a community-academic research unit working on Asian health issues since 1986. Dr. Nguyen’s research focuses on addressing health disparities using community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods. Dr. Nguyen is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), a national network funded by the NCI to address cancer disparities through research, community involvement, and capacity building since 2000. He was formerly Co-Director of the UCSF Tobacco Education Center, where he provided smoking cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy. His research interest is in smoking cessation for ethnic minorities through public health and individual education.
Harvard University, B.A., 1986, Philosophy
Stanford University, M.D., 1991, Medicine
Stanford University, 1990, Health Services Research
1. Koch-Weser S, Grigg-Saito D, Liang S, Toof R, Kreth NN, Pot M, Foo MA, Foong HL, Kagawa-Singer M, Lee SW, Nguyen TN, Tanjasiri SP, Tran, JH, Nguyen TT, McPhee SJ, Liao Y, Tucker P, Giles W. Health Status of Cambodian and Vietnamese Americans compared with That of All Asian Americans and the U.S. Population - - Analysis of Data from the REACH 2010 Risk Factor Survey. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, 2004;53(33):760-764.
2. Ling P, Neilands TB, Nguyen TT, Kaplan CP. Psychographic segments based on attitudes about smoking and lifestyle among Vietnamese-American adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2007; 41(1): 51-60.
3. Nguyen TT, Gildengorin G, Gregorich SE, McPhee SJ, Kaplan CP. Smoking susceptibility and attitudes toward smoking among Chinese and Vietnamese American Adolescents. J Ethn Subs Abuse. 2007; 6(3-4): 167-81.
4. Tong EK, Nguyen TT, Vittinghoff E, Perez-Stable EJ. Smoking behaviors among immigrant Asian Americans: rules for smoke-free homes. Am J Prev Med. 2008;35(1): 64-7.
5. Kaplan CP, Nguyen TT, Weinberg V. Longitudinal study of smoking progression in Chinese and Vietnamese American adolescents. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2008;9(2): 335-42.
6. Tong EK, Nguyen T, Vittinghoff E, Perez-Stable EJ. Light and intermittent smoking among California's Asian Americans. Nicotine Tob Res. 2009; 11(2): p. 197-202.
7. Nguyen TT, Liao Y, Gildengorin G, Tsoh J, Bui-Tong N and McPhee SJ. Cardiovascular risk factors and knowledge of symptoms among Vietnamese Americans. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24(2): 238-43.
8. Liao Y, Tsoh J, Chen R, Foo MA, Garvin CC, Grigg-Saito D, Liang S, McPhee SJ, Nguyen TT, Tran JH, Giles WH. Decreases in smoking prevalence in Asian communities served by the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) project. Am J Public Health 2010;100:853-60.
9. Tong EK, Gildengorin G, Nguyen TT, Tsoh J, Modayil MV, Wong C, McPhee SJ. Smoking Prevalence and Factors Associated with Smoking Status among Vietnamese in California. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2010, in press.
10. Tong E, Gildengorin G, Nguyen T, Tsoh J, Wong C, McPhee SJ. California Vietnamese Adult Tobacco Use Survey: Executive Summary. California Department of Public Health, 2010. Available at http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tobacco/Documents/CTCPVietnameseSurvey.pdf.