University of California San Francisco

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
University of California, San Francisco Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training 2018
University of California, San Francisco Fellowship Geriatric Medicine 2001
University of California, San Francisco Certificate Advanced Training in Clinical Research 1999
University of California, San Francisco Residency Internal Medicine 1998
Stanford University M.D. Medicine 1995
Stanford University B.S. Biological Sciences 1990

Awards & Honors

Award Conferred By Date
Recipient of Named Professorship: The Helen Hoh Wu and Laurene Wu McClain Professor of Geriatrics UCSF 2022
Elected into Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) 2019
Elected into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society UCSF Medical Student Class of 2016 2016
Outstanding Research Mentor of the Year Society of General Internal Medicine 2013
Elected into American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) 2012
Academic Senate Distinction in Faculty Mentoring Award UCSF 2010
Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award American Geriatrics Society 2009

Collaboration Interests

I am interested in:

  • policy change

Grants and Funding

  • Midcareer Mentoring Award for Patient-Oriented Research in Aging | NIH | 2011-09-30 - 2019-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen Practices and Outcomes in the Elderly | NIH | 2009-07-01 - 2015-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 156
  1. External Validation of the Walter Index for Posthospitalization Mortality Prediction in Older Adults.
    Avelino-Silva TJ, Lee SJ, Covinsky KE, Walter LC, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin J, Campora F, Szlejf C, Suemoto CK, Smith AK| | PubMed
  2. Do Not Wait to Consider Life Expectancy Until After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis.
    Schoenborn NL, Walter LC| | PubMed
  3. Associations of frailty with survival, hospitalization, functional decline, and toxicity among older adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
    Lee HJ, Boscardin J, Walter LC, Smith AK, Cohen HJ, Giri S, Williams GR, Presley CJ, Singhal S, Huang LW, Velazquez AI, Gubens MA, Blakely CM, Mulvey CK, Cheng ML, Sakoda LC, Kushi LH, Quesenberry C, Liu R, Fleszar-Pavlovic S, Eskandar C, Cutler E, Mercurio AM, Wong ML| | PubMed
  4. Age Self Care, a program to improve aging in place through group learning and incremental behavior change: Preliminary data.
    Nguyen T, Tang B, Harrison KL, Stadler S, Walter LC, Hoepke K, Aronson L, Allison TA| | PubMed
  5. Function, cognition, and quality of life among older adults with lung cancer who live alone: A prospective cohort study.
    Singhal S, Walter LC, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Shi Y, Cohen HJ, Presley CJ, Kushi LH, Giri S, Magnuson A, Williams GR, Velazquez AI, Lee HJ, Sakoda LC, Quesenberry CP, Falvey JR, Van Dyk KM, Wong ML| | PubMed
  6. Risk factors and associated outcomes of postoperative delirium after open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
    Gutierrez RD, Smith EJT, Matthay ZA, Gasper WJ, Hiramoto JS, Conte MS, Finlayson E, Walter LC, Iannuzzi JC| | PubMed
  7. How older men live with stress urinary incontinence: Patient experience and navigation to treatment.
    Shaw NM, Breyer BN, Walter LC, Sudore RL, Suskind AM, Baussan C, Quanstrom K, Allen IE, Cooperberg MR, Dohan D, Hampson LA| | PubMed
  8. Screening for lung cancer: 2023 guideline update from the American Cancer Society.
    Wolf AMD, Oeffinger KC, Shih TY, Walter LC, Church TR, Fontham ETH, Elkin EB, Etzioni RD, Guerra CE, Perkins RB, Kondo KK, Kratzer TB, Manassaram-Baptiste D, Dahut WL, Smith RA| | PubMed
  9. Improving older adults' telehealth through a novel community-academic partnership: Preliminary data.
    Neumann AV, Gonzalez A, Walter LC, Rivera J| | PubMed
  10. Multi-level Factors Influencing Decisions About Stopping Surveillance Colonoscopy in Older Adults: a Qualitative Study.
    Schifferdecker KE, Ramesh NP, Walter LC, Calderwood AH| | PubMed