Bowen Chung

Dr. Chung, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior's Health Services Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Chung is the Assistant Director of the Center for Media, Medicine, and Communities. Dr. Chung's research interests are in the area of health promotion and health communications in minority communities. In addition, Dr. Chung is focused on factors around quality of care in the childhood and adolescent depression treatment. Dr. Chung received his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his M.S.H.S. from the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Chung is currently receiving funding from the NIMH funded American Psychiatric Association Program in Minority Research Training in Psychiatry and through the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Childhood and Adolescent Depression. He recently completed the UCLA / RAND Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

His current projects include data analyses of the NIMH funded Caring for California Initiative to examine factors related to quality of care in publicly funded mental health clinics in California for children under the mentorship of Dr. Bonnie Zima. In addition, Dr. Chung is a collaborator in Witness for Wellness, a community partnered participatory research project to develop strategies to improve quality, access, and uptake of care for depression in South Los Angeles under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Wells and Loretta Jones. He is currently developing and evaluating communication strategies around depression in partnership with local community members to increase the uptake of evidence based strategies for depression.

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	Bowen Chung, M.D., M.S.H.S. Dr. Chung, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior's Health Services Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Chung is the Assistant Director of the Center for Media, Medicine, and Communities. Dr. Chung's research interests are in the area of health promotion and health communications in minority communities. In addition, Dr. Chung is focused on factors around quality of care in the childhood and adolescent depression treatment. Dr. Chung received his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his M.S.H.S. from the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Chung is currently receiving funding from the NIMH funded American Psychiatric Association Program in Minority Research Training in Psychiatry and through the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Childhood and Adolescent Depression. He recently completed the UCLA / RAND Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. His current projects include data analyses of the NIMH funded Caring for California Initiative to examine factors related to quality of care in publicly funded mental health clinics in California for children under the mentorship of Dr. Bonnie Zima. In addition, Dr. Chung is a collaborator in Witness for Wellness, a community partnered participatory research project to develop strategies to improve quality, access, and uptake of care for depression in South Los Angeles under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Wells and Loretta Jones. He is currently developing and evaluating communication strategies around depression in partnership with local community members to increase the uptake of evidence based strategies for depression.				Contact Info