Janice Tsoh, PhD

Professor In Residence
Psychiatry
[email protected]
+1 415 502-8438

I am a practicing clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). I also serve as Co-Director of the Asian American Research Center on Health (AsianARCH.org). The mission of my research program is to promote health equity by developing accessible interventions that can empower individuals and families to make informed health decisions and to take an active role in staying healthy. My current research program focuses on reducing tobacco-related and cancer health disparities through lifestyle interventions in diverse populations, and on advancing health equity in Asian Americans particularly among immigrants with limited English proficiency. Examples of my on-going research projects include developing and testing intervention approaches such as lay health worker outreach involving families and peers in multiple Asian American communities to promote smoking cessation, healthy eating and physical activity, interactive mobile patient educational tools in primary and oncology settings, and electronic health record based strategies to integrate tobacco treatment into cancer care.

Since 2000, I have been actively involved in research and clinical teaching providing both didactic training and supervision to predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees at UCSF. I currrently serve as Associate Director for a NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Training Fellowship on Substance Use Disorders Treatment and Services Research. My teaching mission is to tailor the training experience and the scope of the projects to each individual’s stage of career development. Many of my trainees are from ethnic minority groups underrepresented in the field of tobacco control or other health disciplines. Most of the trainees are also interested in conducting research targeting minority groups addressing the needs of California’s and the Nation’s diverse population. Establishing the next generation of research mentors is my favorite mission as an educator.

Publications

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ preferences in recruitment strategies/messaging for participation in a research recruitment registry for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, aging, and caregiving research: A discrete choice experiment sur

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Van Ta Park, Joshua D. Grill, Niloufar Ameli, Sarit Helman, Marian Tzuang, Janice Y. Tsoh, Oanh L. Meyer, Bora Nam, Ladson Hinton, Alka Kanaya, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Quyen Vuong, Joon Bang, Hye-Won Shin, Stuart Gansky

Smoking Status, Nicotine Medication, Vaccination, and COVID-19 Hospital Outcomes: Findings from the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin (CEC-UW) Study.

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

Piasecki TM, Smith SS, Baker TB, Slutske WS, Adsit RT, Bolt DM, Conner KL, Bernstein SL, Eng OD, Lazuk D, Gonzalez A, Jorenby DE, D'Angelo H, Kirsch JA, Williams BS, Nolan MB, Hayes-Birchler T, Kent S, Kim H, Lubanski S, Yu M, Suk Y, Cai Y, Kashyap N, Mathew JP, McMahan G, Rolland B, Tindle HA, Warren GW, An LC, Boyd AD, Brunzell DH, Carrillo V, Chen LS, Davis JM, Deshmukh VG, Dilip D, Ellerbeck EF, Goldstein AO, Iturrate E, Jose T, Khanna N, King A, Klass E, Mermelstein RJ, Tong E, Tsoh JY, Wilson KM, Theobald WE, Fiore MC

The first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Mortality, intubation and ICU rates among 104,590 patients hospitalized at 21 United States health systems.

PloS one

Fiore MC, Smith SS, Adsit RT, Bolt DM, Conner KL, Bernstein SL, Eng OD, Lazuk D, Gonzalez A, Jorenby DE, D'Angelo H, Kirsch JA, Williams B, Nolan MB, Hayes-Birchler T, Kent S, Kim H, Piasecki TM, Slutske WS, Lubanski S, Yu M, Suk Y, Cai Y, Kashyap N, Mathew JP, McMahan G, Rolland B, Tindle HA, Warren GW, An LC, Boyd AD, Brunzell DH, Carrillo V, Chen LS, Davis JM, Dilip D, Ellerbeck EF, Iturrate E, Jose T, Khanna N, King A, Klass E, Newman M, Shoenbill KA, Tong E, Tsoh JY, Wilson KM, Theobald WE, Baker TB

Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Health and Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Report From the 2021 National Institutes of Health Workshop.

Annals of internal medicine

Kanaya AM, Hsing AW, Panapasa SV, Kandula NR, Araneta MRG, Shimbo D, Wang P, Gomez SL, Lee J, Narayan KMV, Mau MKLM, Bose S, Daviglus ML, Hu FB, Islam N, Jackson CL, Kataoka-Yahiro M, Kauwe JSK, Liu S, Ma GX, Nguyen T, Palaniappan L, Setiawan VW, Trinh-Shevrin C, Tsoh JY, Vaidya D, Vickrey B, Wang TJ, Wong ND, Coady S, Hong Y

Relationship Between Symptom Severity, Psychiatric Comorbidity, Social/Occupational Impairment, and Suicidality in Hoarding Disorder.

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Christian A. Archer, Kyara Moran, Karen Garza, Jessica J. Zakrzewski, Anna Martin, Chia-Ying Chou, Soo Y. Uhm, Joanne Chan, Michael Gause, Mark Salazar, Julian Plumadore, Lauren C. Smith, Kiya Komaiko, Gillian Howell, Ofilio Vigil, David Bain, Sandra Stark, R. Scott Mackin, Monika Eckfield, Eduardo Vega, Janice Y. Tsoh, Kevin L. Delucchi, Carol A. Mathews

Clinical Psychology Review

Eating disorders: Efficacy of pharmacological and psychological interventions

Johnson, W.G., Tsoh, J.Y., & Varnado, P.J.