Event name
VISTAS Zoom Webinar: "Geriatric Medicine" with Louise Aronson
When
Fri 10 / 22 / 2021
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Where
Zoom - Log In & Click on Link in Event Description
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited Capacity: 53 spots available
Price
Free
VISTAS Zoom Webinar: "Geriatric Medicine" with Louise Aronson
Friday, October 22 at 11:30am
Louise Aronson, author of Elderhood, explains the concept of Geriatric Medicine and its importance as a discipline for understanding health as we age.
Louise Aronson is a practicing geriatrician and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A graduate of Harvard Medical School, she has served as director of the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center, the UCSF Pathways
to Discovery program, and currently leads the campus-wide Health Humanities and Social Advocacy Initiative. She has received awards including California Homecare Physician of the Year, the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, and American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year. Her scholarly articles have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Health Affairs, Medical Education, Academic Medicine, Medical Teacher, JGIM, STAT News, Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and JAMA. She lives on one of San Francisco’s fourteen steep hills with her family.