Dr. Tong is a practicing family physician, addiction medicine specialist and health services researcher. He serves as the Associate Director of the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) region Practice and Research Network, a practice-based research network of over 120 primary care practices. He is also a 2023-2025 National Academy of Medicine Puffer/ABFM Fellow. His research is informed by his clinical practice at the Harborview Family Medicine Clinic in Seattle, WA, and his areas of interest include behavioral health, loneliness, chronic pain and unhealthy substance use. Before moving to UW, he served as a senior staff fellow from 2020-2022 at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality where he co-led the behavioral health and substance use research portfolios.