Hohui Wang

Hohui Wang, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, affiliated with the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Her research explores the gut-brain axis, sleep disorders, trauma and PTSD, medical education, and cultural psychiatry.

Education and Training:

• MD, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (2011)
• Internship and Residency in Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego (2017)
• Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (2019)

Her research investigates the bidirectional relationships between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psychiatric conditions (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, suicide risk). She has pioneered work on how pre-deployment insomnia predicts PTSD in soldiers, sleep quality affects military training outcomes, and genetic factors like interleukin-1 alpha polymorphisms influence cognitive aging. Her publications span Psychiatry, Gastroenterology, and Neurology, with recent studies (2025) analyzing substance use disparities in IBD.

Notable Trends: Her work bridges gastroenterology and neurology with suicidology, trauma, and public health disparities. She has contributed to understanding neurodegenerative risks in IBD and sleep interventions for injury prevention.

Labs and Teams: Affiliated with the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, she collaborates with co-authors like Bing Zhang, Murray Stein, and Laura Campbell-Sills on cross-disciplinary studies involving genetics, epidemiology, and clinical psychiatry.