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SHL + CARE Present: Gout in the Asian Population
Gout affects 8.3 million Americans, roughly 3.9% of the U.S population. Gout has significant impact on physical function, productivity, health-related quality of life and health care costs. Uncontrolled gout is also associated with significant utilization of emergent care services. Asian patients are 2.7 times more likely to suffer from gout than Caucasian patients. Dr. Jison Hong will discuss how to recognize gout, epidemiology of gout, risk factors of gout, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and role of diet and weight loss.

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Jison Hong, MD
Dr. Jison Hong was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States at age 5. She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and Overland Park, Kansas and went to college at NYU. She went on to complete medical school and Internal Medicine residency training at Rutgers medical school in Newark, New Jersey. She served as a Chief Resident for an additional year and then went on to complete her fellowship training in Rheumatology at Stanford University Medical Center and joined the faculty in the division of Immunology & Rheumaotlogy at Stanford 2014 as Clinical Assistant Professor. She has a special interest in gout for which she is currently leading a value-based care project to improve evaluation and management for this patient population and gives lectures on this topic for the Stanford Cardiology Heart Failure fellowship program as well as a continuing medical education lecture for Stanford primary care providers.

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