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Recent Division News |
| Geriatrics news items for the week of November 16, 2009 |
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The UCSF Housecalls program was featured on the front page of SFGate. The article highlights the great work that is being done in the Housecalls Program. This is one of the programs in the Division of Geriatrics that provides innovative care for seniors. Read article |
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Victor Valcour, MD (Associate Professor) received a score of 19 (2nd percentile) for his NIH proposal ”Neurodevelopment and Imaging among HIV-infected Children" in the PREDICT study. This grant will examine brain vulnerability in the setting of HIV by determining if timing of antiretroviral therapy impacts brain development. The findings may inform our understanding of HIV brain injury at all ages. |
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Louise Aronson, MD, MFA (Assistant Professor) was one of the national leaders in the medical humanities who contributed to “Osler’s Bedside Library: Great Writers Who Inspired a Great Physician.” The book, a companion and guide for contemporary readers published by the ACP Press, features excerpts from the literary masterpieces Osler himself recommended to his students and colleagues plus commentaries by scholars in medical humanities who discuss why the work remains relevant to the physician's education and the practice of medicine. |
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Dr. Kaycee Sink, a graduate of the UCSF Geriatrics Fellowship Progam, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Wake Forest University received an award for an educational product of the year at the 2009 annual meeting of Reynolds Foundation Grantees. She received this award for her lesson in the Smart Prescribe Curriculum, Principles of Effective Prescribing. View the curriculum |
| Geriatrics news items for the week of November 9, 2009 |
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Rebecca Sudore, MD (Dr. Sudore is a VA Career Development Awardee at San Francisco VAMC) received the award for best poster at the 2009 Bay Area Symposium on Clinical Research for her project titled: "Uncertainty About Advance Care Planning Treatment Preferences Among Diverse Older Adults." Co Authors were Dean Schillinger from San Francisco General Hospital and Terri Fried from Yale University.
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Eric Widera, MD and Alexander Smith, MD were recognized for their work developing GeriPal in the weekly AGS email newsletter to the entire AGS membership. GeriPal was noted to be an outstanding forum for discourse, recent news, research, and commentary. Be sure to visit www.geripal.org each day to keep a pulse on what is happening in the worlds of Geriatrics and Palliative Care. |
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The Division of Geriatrics is pleased to welcome Dr. Chek Wong as a visiting Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Wong is one of Singapore's leading Geriatricians, and he has been a trailblazer in advocating for the development of Geriatric programs in Singapore. Dr. Wong hopes to learn from us how we developed the UCSF academic program, and we look forward to expanding our understanding of Geriatric program development and leadership as we learn from Dr. Wong. |
| Geriatrics news items for the week of October 26, 2009 |
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Jennifer Morris, MD and the UCSF Newsletter on Aging received special notice in Chris Langston’s recent post from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Langston, Program Director at the Foundation, cites the Newsletter in telling how Dr. Morris “goes the extra mile in caring for challenging older veterans” and, in so doing, shows that “the heart of geriatrics is heart.” Dr. Morris is Staff Physician, San Francisco VA Medical Center. The Newsletter was conceived and co-edited by Ken Covinsky, MD, MPH and Joan Abrams. View Positng |
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The American College of Physicians Journal Club identified Dr. Madhuri Reddy's article, "Treatment of pressure ulcers: a systematic review," as an original study that warrants immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal medicine. ACP Journal Club Review |
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On October 14, 2009, Kala Mehta D.Sc and Gwen Yeo, PhD presented the first webinar in a series of nine on ‘Ethnicity and the Dementias’ for the Stanford Geriatrics Education Center. This webinar featured recent information on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia for various race/ethnic populations in the US. See Presentation Slides |
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Aging In the News |
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Upcoming Events |
Division of Geriatrics Grand Rounds
December 2009:
December 2, 2009
Room HSW-302
8:00am to 9:00am Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
Professor, Geriatrics and Adult Development
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Click here for more information on speakers and topics. |
