Suzi Hong

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health
School	Health Sciences
Address	9500 Gilman Drive #0725 La Jolla CA 92093
Phone	858-822-4579
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Title(s)	, Psychiatry
Title(s)	, Psychiatry

Overview

Biography

Dr. Hong was born and raised in South Korea. After she obtained a master’s degree in exercise psychology at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, she received her doctorate in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology and exercise immunology from the University of Georgia. She completed her post-doctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral medicine research in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Hong’s research interests include neuroendocrine and immune cell activation, exercise and immune system activation and adaptation, and inflammation and its cognitive and psychological impact. Her NIH-funded studies focus on immune cell activation and endothelial inflammation under sympathoadrenal activation among prehypertensive individuals and their implications for vascular pathology. She has been and is the PI of a number of other grants and a co-investigator of NIH-funded studies with their focuses on inflammation and depression in heart failure, effects of a TaiChi intervention in heart failure, and immune activation and neurocognitive impairment in HIV patients. Dr. Hong utilizes various cellular immunology methods in her research and is the Director of UCSD Hillcrest Flow Cytometry and Cellular Immunology Core.

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Multisystem risk profile of older adults to predict cognitive function and impairment
NIH/NIA R03AG063328Apr 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2021
Role: Principal Investigator

Autonomic and Immuno-vascular Mechanisms of Antihypertensive Effects of Taichi
NIH/NHLBI R01HL126056Aug 1, 2015 - Apr 30, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

Obesity, vascular inflammation, and immune cell activation in prehypertension
NIH/NHLBI R01HL090975Feb 1, 2009 - Jun 30, 2012
Role: Principal Investigator

ORNG Applications

Faculty Mentoring

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Publications

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Prolonged platelet activation in individuals with elevated blood pressure in response to a moderate exercise challenge. Psychophysiology. 2009 Mar; 46(2):276-84. Hong S, Adler KA, Von Känel R, Nordberg J, Ziegler MG, Mills PJ. PMID: 19170949.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 5 Fields:
Psy Psychophysiology
Translation:Humans
The association of social status and blood pressure with markers of vascular inflammation. Psychosom Med. 2006 Jul-Aug; 68(4):517-23. Hong S, Nelesen RA, Krohn PL, Mills PJ, Dimsdale JE. PMID: 16868259.

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Psy Psychiatry
Translation:Humans
The association between interleukin-6, sleep, and demographic characteristics. Brain Behav Immun. 2005 Mar; 19(2):165-72. Hong S, Mills PJ, Loredo JS, Adler KA, Dimsdale JE. PMID: 15664789.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 29 Fields:
All Allergy and Immunology Bra Brain Psy Psychophysiology
Translation:Humans
Attenuation of T-lymphocyte demargination and adhesion molecule expression in response to moderate exercise in physically fit individuals. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2005 Mar; 98(3):1057-63. Hong S, Johnson TA, Farag NH, Guy HJ, Matthews SC, Ziegler MG, Mills PJ. PMID: 15501922.

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Phy Physiology
Translation:Humans Cells CTClinical Trials
Effects of regular exercise on lymphocyte subsets and CD62L after psychological vs. physical stress. J Psychosom Res. 2004 Mar; 56(3):363-70. Hong S, Farag NH, Nelesen RA, Ziegler MG, Mills PJ. PMID: 15046975.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 9 Fields:
Psy Psychiatry
Translation:Humans Cells