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Filza Hussain MD, FACLP
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Medical Psychiatry
Clinical Associate Professor (By courtesy), Surgery - Abdominal TransplantationBioDr. Filza Hussain completed her medical education at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, and pursued psychiatry training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she was awarded the MJ Martin Award for Excellence in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and served as Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City and is a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Before joining Stanford, she served rural communities across eleven counties in Northwest Wisconsin as the sole outpatient psychiatric provider for a Mayo Clinic satellite practice, while also serving on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and teaching psychopathology as part of Crisis Intervention Training for local law enforcement.
Dr. Hussain joined Stanford University School of Medicine in 2017. She serves as Lead Psychiatrist for the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs at Stanford Health Care and holds a courtesy appointment in Abdominal Transplant Surgery. Her clinical work centers on expanding access to transplantation for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease. She contributed to the Stanford Limited Sobriety Pathway and led the development of FRAME-ALD (Fair and Risk-Aligned Model for Evaluation in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease), a psychosocial risk stratification protocol now in active implementation at Stanford Health Care, built on the principle that all patients with alcohol-associated liver disease deserve individualized, evidence-based evaluation.
She developed the Immersion Series, an award-winning program bringing specialists from across medicine and surgery to teach Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellows, and served as Chair of the Education Committee and Associate Program Director of the fellowship, during which time she grew the program from two to four fellows and helped establish a Psycho-Oncology training track.
Her scholarly work spans transplant psychiatry, substance use in solid organ transplantation, and medical education. She has presented at national and international meetings and contributed chapters to major texts in transplant psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.
Dr. Hussain's interests include the role of psychiatric care in promoting equity in transplantation and the relationship between physician identity, wellbeing, and patient care. -
Alison Hwong
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Public Mental Health and Population Sciences)
BioMy research focuses on improving health outcomes for people with mental illness, including: physical health and premature mortality for people with serious mental illness, aging and living with psychosis, social determinants of mental health, and the mental health effects of climate change.
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Gabriella Imbriano, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioGabriella Imbriano, Ph.D. is the Co-Director for the Center for Mental Health Implementation Support (CMHIS) within the Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation and is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Imbriano is a clinical psychologist and research scientist. She is passionate about increasing access to evidenced-based mental health care and her previous work in the Veterans Health Administration, and in various university and academic medical centers, has inspired her commitment to science and practice integration. She has clinical expertise and research interests in traumatic stress disorders and trauma-informed care, women’s health care, and their intersections with implementation science. She also has extensive training and expertise in evidenced-based treatments for anxiety, depression, and adjustment disorders in adult populations. She takes a client-centered, humanistic, and interpersonal approach to psychotherapy.
