Education
| Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Fellowship | General Internal Medicine | 2008 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Fellowship | Palliative Medicine | 2006 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Residency | Primary Care Internal Medicine | 2005 |
| Harvard University | MPH | School of Public Health | 2005 |
| University of California, San Francisco | M.D. | Medicine | 2002 |
| University of California, Berkeley | M.S. | School of Public Health | 1999 |
| University of Michigan | BS | Cellular and Molecular Biology | 1996 |
Awards & Honors
| Award | Conferred By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Excellence in Scientific Research in Palliative Care | American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2025/2025 |
| Thomas and Catherine Yoshikawa Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement | American Geriatrics Society | 2020/2020 |
| Distinction in Mentoring Award at Associate Professor Level | UCSF Academic Senate | 2019/2019 |
| President | UCSF Medical Alumni Association | 2017/2017 |
| Best Palliative Care Blogs (GeriPal) | Healthline | 2017/2017 |
| Best Poster Award | American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2016/2016 |
| Best Abstract Award | National Meeting of the Pepper Centers | 2016/2016 |
| Best Poster Award | American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2015/2015 |
| PDIA National Leadership Award | American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2014/2014 |
| Selected panelist of California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) | California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF) | 2014/2014 |
| Research Mentor Award, Medical Students in Aging Research (MSTAR) | 2013/2013 | |
| Product of the Year Awardee (for ePrognosis: Cancer Screening App) | 2013 Annual Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Grantee Meeting | 2013/2013 |
| Nominated as a hospice and palliative care "visionary" who greatly influenced the development and expansion of the field. | American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2013/2013 |
| Research Mentor of the Year Award | Medical Students in Aging Research (MSTAR) | 2013/2013 |
| 2nd place finisher in UCSF2025, an online game to plan the future of UCSF | UCSF | 2013/2013 |
| Top Reviewer | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2012/2012 |
| Named one of "The 50 Best Medical Professors on Twitter" | OnlineColleges.com | 2012/2012 |
| Best Paper of the Year Award | Society of General Internal Medicine | 2012/2012 |
| New Investigator Award | American Geriatrics Society | 2010/2010 |
| Greenwall Faculty Scholar | Greenwall Foundation | 2010/2010 |
| Best Clinical Weblog (for GeriPal: A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog) | Medgadget | 2010/2010 |
| Finalist for the Hamolsky Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty Research | Society of General Internal Medicine | 2010/2010 |
| T Franklin Williams Scholar Award in Geriatrics | Society of General Internal Medicine | 2010/2010 |
| Scholar of the College of Palliative Care | 2007/2007 | |
| Outstanding Resident Mentor Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital | 2005/2005 | |
| Outstanding Resident Mentor Award | Brigham and Women's Hospital | 2002/2002 |
| Janice Kuby Memorial Scholarship | UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program | 1999/1999 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | University of Michigan | 1996/1996 |
| Angell Scholar | University of Michigan | 1993/1993 |
| Branstrom Freshman Prize | University of Michigan | 1993/1993 |
Mentoring and Training Narrative
I mentor junior faculty, fellows, residents, graduate students, and medical students in research related to geriatrics, palliative care, and bioethics.
Grants and Funding
- Prognostic Indices for Hospitalized Older Adults with and without Alzheimer?s Disease and Related Dementias | NIH | 2023-09-01 - 2028-05-31 | Role: PI (MPI mechanism)
- Research Training in Geriatric Medicine | NIH | 1991-09-01 - 2028-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Meaningful Activities and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias | NIH | 2020-09-15 - 2025-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias | NIH | 2018-08-15 - 2022-04-30 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias | NIH/NIA | 2018-08-15 - 2022-04-30 | Role: PI
- Developing prognostic models for life expectancy and geriatric outcomes | NIH | 2015-05-15 - 2020-01-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- P0045982 Late Life Disability: Epidemiology, Symptoms, Quality of Life | NIH | 2012-09-01 - 2017-11-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 10
- Cognition After Postoperative Delirium-The Confusion Has Cleared but All Is Not Well.| |
PubMed
- Sharing the load: Can we minimize the need to self-advocate for hearing loss consideration?| |PubMed
- Sensory Impairment and Risk of Elder Mistreatment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.| |PubMed
- "They're exhausted": Hospice Staff Views on Caring for Patients and Families Impacted By Dementia.| |PubMed
- Frequent in dementia, deadliest without it: delirium and mortality in hospitalised older adults.| |PubMed
- How ICU clinicians document 'Futility': A 10-year analysis of critical care notes using natural language processing notes.| |PubMed
- End-of-Life Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Symptom Burden: A Nationally-Representative Study.| |PubMed
- Referral of patients with cognitive impairment to specialty memory care: associations with patient-centered outcomes and specificity of diagnoses.| |PubMed
- An Updated Mortality and Community Discharge Prognostic Model for Older Adults Admitted to Skilled Nursing Facilities for Post-Acute Care.| |PubMed
- "By the Skin of Our Teeth": U.S. Hospital, Regional, and State Experiences of Scarcity During the COVID-19 Pandemic.| |PubMed