Alison Rustagi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rustagi is a primary care physician and epidemiologist. Her overarching goal is to advance precision prevention; that is, to apply the lens of precision medicine to preventive interventions and ensure that patients most likely to benefit are most likely to receive them. She aims to provide high-quality evidence to predict who will benefit most from a preventive intervention to inform national practice guidelines and enable patients to make individualized health decisions.
Dr. Rustagi's current focus is on screening for lung cancer. Dr. Rustagi seeks to identify those most likely to benefit from lung cancer screening using a variety of health metrics. She is conducting one of the first real-world studies of the effectiveness of lung cancer screening using advanced causal inference methods. Her research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and others.
Dr. Rustagi also seeks to train future leaders in medicine and population health, and has been recognized for her mentorship with a 2025 Long-Term Mentoring Award by the UCSF’s School of Medicine.
Dr. Rustagi's current focus is on screening for lung cancer. Dr. Rustagi seeks to identify those most likely to benefit from lung cancer screening using a variety of health metrics. She is conducting one of the first real-world studies of the effectiveness of lung cancer screening using advanced causal inference methods. Her research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and others.
Dr. Rustagi also seeks to train future leaders in medicine and population health, and has been recognized for her mentorship with a 2025 Long-Term Mentoring Award by the UCSF’s School of Medicine.