Gender	Female
E-mail	ula.hwang@mssm.edu
Education and Training	M.P.H., Harvard University School of Public Health
	M.D., New York University School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Awards	Jahnigen Career Development Award American Geriatrics Society, Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies
	K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award National Institute on Aging

Dr. Ula Hwang is an investigator in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the James J. Peters VAMC, Bronx, NY.

Education and Training	M.P.H., Harvard University School of Public Health
	M.D., New York University School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research

Her current projects include understanding factors that impact the quality of care for older adults in the ED setting, with a particular focus on ED pain care.

Hwang U, Morrison RS, Livote E, Harris B, Spencer N, Richardson LD. Emergency department crowding and decreased quality of pain care. Acad Emerg Med;.

Harris B, Hwang U, Lee WS, Richardson LD. Disparities in use of computed tomography for patients presenting with headache. Amer J Emerg Med;.

Bickell NA, Hwang U, Anderson RM, Rojas M, Barsky CL. What affects time to care in emergency department appendicitis patients?. Med Care 2008; 46: 417-422.

Hwang U, Morrison RS. The geriatric emergency department. J Amer Geriatr Soc 2007; 55: 1873-1876.

Wilber ST, Gerson LW, Shah M, Terrell K, Heard K, Carpenter C, Hwang U. Geriatric emergency medicine and the 2006 Institute of Medicine reports from the committee on the future of emergency care in the U.S. health system. Acad Emerg Med 2006; 13: 1345-1351.

Hwang U, Richardson LD, Sonuyi TO, Morrison RS. The effect of emergency department crowding on the management of pain in older adults with hip fracture. J Amer Geriatr Soc 2006; 54: 270-275.

Ragin DF, Hwang U, Cydulka RK, Holson D, Haley LL, Richards CF, Becker BM, Richardson LD. Reasons for using the emergency department: Results of the EMPATH study. Acad Emerg Med 2005; 12: 1158-1166.

Hwang U, Concato J. Care in the emergency department: How crowded is overcrowded?. Acad Emerg Med 2004; 11: 1097-1101.

Richardson L, Hwang U. Access to care: A review of the emergency medicine literature. Acad Emerg Med 2001; 8: 1030-1036.

Richardson L, Hwang U. America's health care safety net: intact or unraveling?. Acad Emerg Med 2001; 8: 1056-1063.