Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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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 |
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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 |
Collaboration Interests
I am interested in:
- physician scientist
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)
- Meaningful Activities and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias | NIH | 2020-09-15 - 2025-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Research Training in Geriatric Medicine | NIH | 1991-09-01 - 2023-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias | NIH/NIA | 2018-08-15 - 2022-04-30 | Role: PI
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias | NIH | 2018-08-15 - 2022-04-30 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- 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 186
- The prevalence of lifetime trauma and association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life.| | PubMed
- Function, cognition, and quality of life among older adults with lung cancer who live alone: A prospective cohort study.| | PubMed
- Mortality and Function After Widowhood Among Older Adults With Dementia, Cancer, or Organ Failure.| | PubMed
- Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?| | PubMed
- "My Mom Is a Fighter": A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Combat Metaphors in ICU Clinician Notes.| | PubMed
- Music Engagement as Part of Everyday Life in Dementia Caregiving Relationships at Home.| | PubMed
- Prognoses Associated With Palliative Performance Scale Scores in Modern Palliative Care Practice.| | PubMed
- Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Chronic Pain Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Adults in the United States.| | PubMed
- Resilience, Survival, and Functional Independence in Older Adults Facing Critical Illness.| | PubMed
- Psychosocial distress among spouses of persons with dementia before and after their partner's death.| | PubMed