Loris Y. Hwang, M.D., M.S.

Adolescent medicine specialist

Dr. Loris Hwang is an adolescent medicine specialist. She cares for adolescent patients at the UCSF Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic and in UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. She is currently an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at UCSF.

Hwang received her medical degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center. She also completed both clinical and research fellowships in adolescent medicine at UCSF.

After residency, Hwang practiced general pediatrics in the greater Seattle area. She cared for pediatric and adolescent patients at the Tulalip Indian Health Clinic and at several clinic sites for Public Health Seattle and King County.

Hwang's clinical research focuses on the biology of cervical epithelial maturation in adolescent women, mucosal immunity and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Her interest areas include the prevention and treatment of STIs in adolescents, particularly human papillomavirus and chlamydia trachomatis. Her research has received the Ortho McNeil Infectious Disease Scholar Award from the Western Society for Pediatric Research (2004-2005), the New Investigator Award from the Society for Adolescent Medicine (2008) and the Robert Durant Award for Statistical Rigor and Innovation in Adolescent Health Research from the Society for Adolescent Medicine (2011). She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as a member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and of the Western Society for Pediatric Research.

This doctor is accepting new patients

Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2002

Adolescent Eating Disorders Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2002