Our Mission
To improve the care of older persons through teaching, discovery, and the care of patients.
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June 6, 2009
Helen Kao, MD was featured on the CBS, KPIX evening news in a story about proposed budget cuts to home health, IHSS, Medicaid. Dr. Kao is shown caring for one of her patients and commnents on how budget cuts will impact the services she provides for low-income and senior patients. *Please note Dr. Helen Kao was referred to as Nancy Kao in error.
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May 22, 2009
Deborah Barnes, Ph.D. was a lead author on an article co-authored with Drs. Covinsky, Whitmer, Kuller, Lopez, and Yaffe. The published a study titled, "Predicting risk of dementia in older adults. The late-life dementia risk index" was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Time Magazine and US News & World Report.
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May 21, 2009
Dr. Alex Smith is the recipient of a Junior Faculty Development Award from the National Palliative Care Research Center. This highly competitive award is given to early career faculty who are expected to become national leaders in Palliative Care research. His project will examine emergency department use at the end of life. This is one of many accomplishments for Dr. Smith in his very productive first year on our faculty. |
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May 8, 2009
Candice Crider, RN received the Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Nursing as part of the Nurse Week festivities at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC). Ms. Crider has been the first floor nurse manager at the SFVAMC Community Living Center (CLC) since February of 2006. This award recognizes her exceptional leadership and outstanding advocacy on behalf of the CLC veterans. |
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May 1, 2009
Dr. Anna Chang was presented with AME Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the 7th annual UCSF Education Day. The award honors the year’s most outstanding hypothesis-driven educational research project. Dr. Chang received the award for her study of early predictors to identify students who fail the required fourth year clinical skills exam.
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April 24, 2009
UCSF Geriatrics was ranked 9th among all Geriatrics programs in the US by US News & World Report . UCSF joins Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Duke, the Univ of Michigan, and Mt. Sinai in the top 10 rankings. The UCSF School of Medicine ranked fifth among all medical schools in the nation.
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April 10, 2009
Maxine Davis has been promoted to serve as Division Administrator. Maxine has worked and risen steadily in the Division over the last decade, and she has come to know the Division very well. In her new position, Maxine will be responsible for overall leadership of our administrative functions and staff, and for working with faculty in our strategic initiatives.
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April 10, 2009
The Spring 2009 edition of UCSF Newsletter on Aging is now available. Click here to view a PDF version of the Newsletter
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April 3, 2009
Rebecca Sudore, MD was quoted in a recent New York Times article titled, "Do you know what your doctor is talking about?" In this article, Dr. Sudore comments on the association of limited health literacy with mortality in the elderly.
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April 3, 2009
Leslie Kernisan, MD has authored an article in Journal of the American Medical Association titled, "Association Between Hospital-Reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and Inpatient Mortality." This article comments on the relationship between hospitals’ safe practice scores and risk-adjusted inpatient mortality rates. Dr. Kernisan was also recently featured on a KSL Channel 5 Newscast regarding this topic.
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April 3, 2009
Sei Lee, MD has published in article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on functional status, SES, and all-cause mortality in older drinkers. In this novel article, Sei shows that older persons who are daily light consumers of alcohol have markedly better prognostic profiles than non drinkers, including much higher SES and much better functional status. This article was recently featured in the New York Times.
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April 3, 2009
Seth Landefeld, MD is author of an editorial in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on the promises and perils of quality indicators in Geriatrics. This editorial presents novel insights into the important discussion about how to best improve processes of care for older persons. Read Article
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April 3, 2009
Alex Smith, MD has been awarded a KL2 award from the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, to start July 1, 2010. The award will support Alex's development as a clinician researcher in Palliative Care, and support his work to improve the provision of Palliative Care in the Emergency Department. The KL2 process was extremely competitive, and it is a testament to his great work that he was able to obtain this award in his first year at UCSF. |
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April 3, 2009
Louise Aronson, MD has been named part of the Deputy Editor Team at the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Louise will be in charge of redesigning and improving the Reflections section, starting a new section titled, "Passages." This be a great use for Louise's skills in writing and scholarly work in reflecting learning.
Dr. Aronson has also been chosen for the Fetzer Institute's 4 year national project on Intergenerational Mentoring focused on transferring leadership skills from senior to midlevel and junior leaders in education. The mentoring team will work together on a series of innovative projects in higher and professional education. This award recognizes Louise's great talents and innovative work teaching medical humanities. |
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April 3, 2009
Anna Chang, MD has been invited to present her work on the prediction of poor scores on the end of third year Clinical Performance Examination at UCSF Medical Education Day. Anna will present her novel work that aims for early identification of students who will benefit from additional clinical skills training. |
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Aging In the News |
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The Northern California Geriatric Education Center is pleased to offer an interdisciplinary faculty development program in health literacy and aging . Please click here to view the brochure.
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Upcoming Events |
Division of Geriatrics Grand Rounds
June 2009:
Louise Walter, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Staff Physician (VA)
UCSF Division of Geriatrics
June 3, 2009
8:00am-9:00am
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