Get psyched for the Geriatrics Literature Update at #AGS24 ! My wife Cindy (pictured bottom left) made one prop already. Can you guess the song and parody? For the uninitiated, here’s a view of a prior update: youtu.be/XTtE5DDf0Fw?si…

Congratulations to NCIRE-supported Principal Investigator and Board Member Kristine Yaffe, MD, for being ranked as one of the Top 50 Female Scientists in the U.S. for 2023 by Research.com!

Learn more: research.com/scientists-ran…

Congratulations to NCIRE-supported researcher Dr. Theresa Allison for receiving a NIH Award to support her research project titled “The impact of music on well-being after diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease or its related dementias”!

Words cannot express the incredible, sudden loss of our beloved Sharon Kaufman over the weekend 😢💔

Incredibly grateful to have spent time with her recently and holding her family, loved ones, and all those touched by her presence in my heart. 1/

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Surreal to retweet as a Twitter novice, but so honored to share information about our arts programming for our military-connected community. #GMU #Veterans #NEAArts #Creative Forces

Appointing Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith to be one of the doctors to lead the new Coronavirus Task Force, makes it clear that Biden intends to fulfil his promise of following the science — not politics — on the road to stopping the virus. Read the full article at the LINK IN OUR BIO.

#UCSFProud : President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris appointed 3 UCSF faculty members to the Biden-Harris Transition #COVID19 Advisory Board.

Congrats to Co-Chair David A. Kessler MD, as well as Dr Eric Goosby and Dr. Robert Rodriguez! chancellor.ucsf.edu/blog/biden-har…

'In short, racism kills. Whether through force, deprivation or discrimination, it is a fundamental cause of disease and the strange but familiar root of racial health inequities.' On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

“So far, the greatest unmet need in successfully fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US relates to the insights provided by the social sciences” Yes & the arts and humanities are also critical to the study of empathy. jamanetwork.com/channels/healt…

I love it when a leading organization chooses health and health care over caution, tradition and all things that too often limit the impact of medical organizations.
I hope many more will follow suit.
Bravo NEJM!
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Dying in a Leadership Vacuum nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Important. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Treatment of home care workers during COVID should provoke outrage. We need regulatory change to support these skilled professionals.

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Home health workers are super heroes They provide care making it possible for disabled older persons to stay at home But landmark JAMA Internal Medicine paper shows weve treated them very poorly during COVID despite their valiant efforts #geriatrics /1 ja.ma/31p4Ixa

Exciting news! My grant to expand rural #Veteran access to #yoga is getting funded! Looking forward to launching a new TeleYoga program based at VA San Francisco. #CIH #WholeHealth #IntegrativeHealthEquity

In which, 12 minutes in, Dr. Covinsky hears a scream...

Drs. Theresa Allison (Theresa Allison, MD, M. Music, PhD), Anna Oh, and Krista Harrison (@klharrisonPhD) published a commentary on the 'Extreme Vulnerability of Home Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

It’s a privilege & honor to share this study- “Home Health Care Worker Experiences in NYC During COVID-19” ja.ma/3fBdHQZ via JAMA Internal Medicine part of JAMA Network - a vulnerable workforce provided frontline, essential care to those who remained at home. Pls read!

UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/4…

@KA09_08 Dr. Sanjay Gupta I’m not aware of any evidence that would support that conclusion. Losing immunity to pathogens is unlikely to be affected by staying inside or not, nor by wearing a mask. True we delay natural immunity to COVID through these precautions, but I’d prefer that to a deadly outbreak.

Transforming undergraduate perceptions of aging & dementia through music & filmmaking. 'Arts and music departments may represent an untapped resource for building a geriatrics workforce.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… & vimeo.com/253983797 #geriatrics #gerontology