News, Views, and Breakthroughs

So strange to live in an era when explaining "age is NOT a disease" is still needed.

So strange to live in an era when explaining "age is NOT a disease" is still needed. Knowing "age itself" was considered for ICD-11 feels like a flashback to the Middle Ages, doesn’t it? #ageism

Ryan McMahan, MD, MAS and Rebecca Sudore, MD published an article for Nature Reviews Nephrology titled "Making Advance Care Planning Easier for Adults with Kidney Disease and their Clinicians."

Older adults with kidney disease face high morbidity and mortality rates, highlighting the importance of simplifying the ACP process. Advance care planning (ACP) has expanded to include care planning throughout life, not just end-of-life preferences.

Pepper Scholar Alumni Julien Cobert, MD and Team Publish their Paper " Resilience, Survival and Functional Independence in Older Adults Facing Critical Illness"

Older adults often experience worsening functional impairments after surviving critical illness, and this study investigates whether pre-ICU resilience is linked to better post-ICU outcomes such as survival and functional independence. Conducting a retrospective cohort study, Pepper Scholar Alumni...

“Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing” New Research from Dr. Ashwin Kotwal and Team

Dr. Ashwin Kotwal (Pepper Scholar Alumnus), Dr. Theresa Allison (Pepper PESC Scholar), Dr. Krista Harrison (Pepper PESC Scholar), Dr.

Andrew J. Scott, MSc, DPhil, on the Role of Gerosciene in the Transformation from an ‘Aging Society’ to a ‘Longevity Society’

International Collaboration at the Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology of Sao Paolo Congress

Marlon Aliberti, MD, PhD (previous visiting scholar), Ken Covinsky, MD, MPH (Pepper Co-Director), and 

MSTAR Student, Belinda Tang, and UCSF Pepper Investigate Medication Management Challenges Among Older Adults

Belinda Tang, MSTAR student, Edie Espejo, MA (Pepper Statistician), Mike Steinman, MD (Pepper Co-Director), and 

Drs. Deardorff and Haimovich's Latest Editorial Dives into Designing Clinical Prediction Rules for Implementation

Pepper Scholar James Deardorff, MD and Adrian Haimovich, MD, PhD published an editorial entitled "

Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS was quoted in the New York Times

Pepper Scholar Alumnus Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS was quoted in an article entitled, "These Skiers Are Still Chasing Powder

Exploring Perspectives on Caring for Middle-Aged Patients with Functional Impairment: Insights from Primary Care Providers and Geriatricians

Pepper Scholar Alumni Drs. Francesca Nicosia and Rebecca Brown and their team consisting of