Alon Unger, MD

Associate Professor

Alon Unger, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine. He went to medical school at UCSF and completed dual residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UCLA. He also completed a Masters in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and he has worked in various settings including South Africa, Uganda, Thailand and Brazil. He recently completed one year of service to Doctors without Borders in Myanmar as the HIV advisor to a large treatment program.

Currently, Alon attends on the inpatient medicine service supervising residents and medical students, and also works part-time at the San Francisco General Hospital. He has a long-standing interest in global health, and he has been involved in research and service projects in both communicable and non-communicable diseases in slum settings.
Education
2020 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
M.D., 2007 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Publications

  1. Unger A, Felzemburgh RD, Snyder RE, Ribeiro GS, Mohr S, Costa VB, Melendez AX, Reis RB, Santana FS, Riley LW, Reis MG, Ko AI. Hypertension in a Brazilian urban slum population. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2015. PMID: 25920334


  2. Unger A. Arch Dis Child Children's health in slum setting 2013. PMID:


  3. Nahid P, Jarlsberg LG, Rudoy I, de Jong BC, Unger A, Kawamura LM, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC, Daley CL. Factors associated with mortality in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis. BMC infectious diseases 2011. PMID: 21199579


  4. Unger A, O'Neal S, Machado PR, Guimaraes LH, Morgan DJ, Schriefer A, Bacellar O, Glesby MJ, Carvalho EM. Am J Trop Med Hyg Association of treatment of American cutaneous leishmaniasis prior to ulcer developmen with high rate of failure in northeastern Brazil 2009. PMID:


  5. Unger A, Riley LW. Slum health: from understanding to action. PLoS medicine 2007. PMID: 17958462


  6. Riley LW, Ko AI, Unger A, Reis MG. Slum health: diseases of neglected populations. BMC international health and human rights 2007. PMID: 17343758


  7. Nahid P, Gonzalez LC, Rudoy I, de Jong BC, Unger A, Kawamura LM, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC, Daley CL. Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2007. PMID: 17290042


  8. Riley LW, Ko AI, Unger A, Reis MG. BMC Int Health Hum Rights Slum health: diseases of neglected populations 2007. PMID:


  9. Unger A, Riley LW. PLoS Med Slum health: from understanding to action 2007. PMID: