ARTHUR HONG

Arthur Hong, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Peter J. O’Donnell School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is broadly interested in improving the efficiency of clinical decision making, and quality of care delivered across the outpatient, emergency department, and inpatient settings, and has expertise in analyzing multilevel hierarchical data and evaluating quality of care metrics using large insurance claims datasets representing >50 million enrollees, as well as quasi-experimental methods to evaluate natural experiments.

 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and medical degree from the University of Michigan. He completed internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Population Medicine.  He was recruited to UTSW as a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar, where he has expanded his work to understanding and optimizing acute care for adults newly diagnosed with cancer.

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Supported by a career development award in 2020 from the American Cancer Society, Dr. Hong has expanded his research skillset into qualitative, mixed-methods, and implementation science. He has integrated data from local tumor registries, health records, and health information exchange into a regionally comprehensive, longitudinal, cancer care delivery dataset, that answers health services research questions in cancer care. He continues this work through a National Cancer Institute-funded R01 to evaluate and improve definitions of avoidable hospital care for adults with cancer.

 

Through this work, he has established a closer, multidisciplinary, research and clinical partnership with the cancer programs at Parkland Health and Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, leading to the establishing of the Cancer Care Delivery Research Collaborative.