Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD

Dr. Ngo-Metzger a general internal medicine physician who specializes in prevention and evidence-based medicine.  She provides scientific leadership for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.  Since its inception over 30 years ago, the Task Force’s mission is to improve and the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services and health promotion.  Prior to her work at the Task Force, she was Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and Senior Research Fellow in the Health Policy Research Institute. At the University of California, she received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Clinician Investigator. Her work in behavioral health and primary care has been published in the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health and the Handbook of Asian American Health.  Dr. Ngo-Metzger received the American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award.  She has published over 75 peer-reviewed publications.  Quyen received her Medical degree and internal medicine training at the University of Chicago.  She completed fellowship training in health services research and health policy at Harvard Medical School, and completed a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard.