Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH, is a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gelberg has been PI or co-investigator on over $50 million of research funding, published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, and mentored over 100 young investigators. Her work with diverse, low-income patients and homeless populations, including veterans and their families, is advancing the national agenda to end homelessness and to promote healthy lifestyle change via integration of prevention into primary care — to reduce risky substance use and prevent progression to opioid and other substance use disorders, address obesity, and prevent metabolic diseases. Her work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the VA Health Services Research and Development Service, and others.
Gelberg graduated from Harvard Medical School.
Gelberg has been PI or co-investigator on over $50 million of research funding, published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, and mentored over 100 young investigators. Her work with diverse, low-income patients and homeless populations, including veterans and their families, is advancing the national agenda to end homelessness and to promote healthy lifestyle change via integration of prevention into primary care — to reduce risky substance use and prevent progression to opioid and other substance use disorders, address obesity, and prevent metabolic diseases. Her work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the VA Health Services Research and Development Service, and others.
Gelberg graduated from Harvard Medical School.
Journal Article
Researchers study the prevalence of, factors associated with, and reasons for past–3 month cannabis use reported by primary care patients. This study used electronic health record data from patients aged 18 years and older who had an annual wellness visit between January 2021 and May 2023 from a primary care clinic within a university-based health system in Los Angeles, California.
Health Day News
In most cases, doctors may not know that weed is part of a patient's daily life.
"Patients may not tell their primary care providers about their cannabis use, and their doctors may not ask about it," said study author Dr. Lillian Gelberg, a professor of health policy and management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).