Lucinda B. Leung is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also an Investigator at the Center for Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) and a general internal medicine physician at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Dr. Leung’s expertise is in health services research to optimize care for primary care patients with mental health needs. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary team-based care models augmented by virtual care modalities. Partnering with healthcare system leaders in the Veterans Health Administration and large health care organizations, Dr. Leung studies how to integrate mental health services into primary care practice (e.g., patient-centered medical home, collaborative care for depression, telemedicine), as well as its impact on care utilization, quality, and costs across populations, especially among veterans and safety-net patients. She and her research team employ wide-ranging methodologies (e.g., mixed methods research, cohort studies, causal inference, pragmatic clinical trials, implementation science) to understand how to redesign health services to help ensure the best outcomes at the highest value.