News & Events

UCSF News reports that Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, a general and transplant hepatologist and assistant clinical professor in the UCSF Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has been honored for her "patient-oriented clinical research within the core principles of geriatrics (i.e., frailty, disability, lag-time...

Drs. Emily Finlayson and Jennifer Kaplan received the Innovations Funding for Education Award for their proposal: ‘Integrating Interprofessional Learners in High Risk Surgical Patient Care’. Funded by the Academy of Medical Educators Innovation Program, the UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management/UCSF...

The Department of Surgery has launched a new program, the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA). Led by Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., an Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Policy, the program seeks to discover and implement patient-centered best practices in geriatric surgery that will help older...

The UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA) has published its inaugural Winter 2015 Newsletter: Greetings from the UCSF Surgery Wellness Program. As 2015 draws to a close, we would like to thank our patients, families, and supporters for all they have contributed to this exciting new initiative. We are...

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH discusses trends and news ideas about surgical outcomes percolating among thought leaders in the field including Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Policy at UCSF, in a post at GeriPal, a geriatrics and palliative care blog. A while back people...

UCSF News reports on a systemwide initiative by the University of California to expand specialized care for seriously ill patients, notably those in the ICU: The University of California is leveraging its expertise to enhance patient care at UC medical centers systemwide, awarding a $1 million grant to expand...

UCSF News reports on a study that urges doctors to consider patient risks, benefits and preferences when treating low-risk skin cancers with surgery in elderly patients: Surgery is often recommended for skin cancers, but older, sicker patients can endure complications as a result and may not live long enough to...

UCSF News reports on a new tool to assess health risks for older adults designed for physicians to assess their geriatric patients in a medical setting: Calculating medical risk can be an inexact science, especially for older adults, with many factors from the environment to chronic diseases helping determine how...

The New York Times reports in its "The New Old Age - Caring and Coping Blog" on the high-risk of performing surgery in older adults, even for otherwised routine operations. Even operations considered fairly routine in younger patients, like appendectomies, become high-risk for nursing home residents. “Something...

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH discusses the exciting rollout of the EPrognosis website and the decision to allow non-clinicians access to the site: Eprognosis is barely a week old, and we've already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors). For perspective, GeriPal is about 3 years old, and in that time...

The NY Times reports on UCSF's development of interactive tools informing the treatment decision based on the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations : To help prevent overtesting and overtreatment of older patients — or undertreatment for those who remain robust at...