Dr. Khoong will highlight digital health tools that have been shown to effectively improve cardiometabolic disease outcomes and share best practices on how to implement these digital health tools in safety net settings to address cardiovascular risk factors.

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS is a general internist and assistant professor of medicine based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is interested in leveraging technology and implementation science to improve equity in delivery of primary care. Dr. Khoong is a mixed methods researcher, implementation scientist, and informatician. Her research aims to develop, pilot, and implement interventions that improve chronic disease outcomes for populations that experience disparities, particularly those cared for in safety-net system. Dr. Khoong's work is driven by her experiences as a primary care clinician caring for diverse patients within a safety-net setting.