The US Deprescribing Research Network, co-led by our UCSF Pepper Co-Director Mike Steinman, MD, welcomes you to attend its 2024 Annual Meeting, which will be held in-person on May 15th in Boston during the preconference day of the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.
Providing high quality compassionate care for persons with dementia requires attending to their needs for assistance and the need to support their caregivers. For many persons with dementia, the illness progresses to the point where the individual needs a very high level of assistance, often…
Dr. Ken Covinsky, UCSF Pepper Center Co-Director, and Dr. Rebecca Sudore, UCSF Pepper Center VARC Co-Director, led a joint session for the Pepper Centers and Innovation & Implementation Center in Aging & Palliative Care (I-CAP) titled "Including Older Adults in Research," that…
Krista Harrison, PhD, UCSF Pepper VARC Co-Director, will be giving a talk entitled "Adrift at the Dock: Grief in Serious Illness Care" for the University of North Carolina Comprehensive Cancer Support Program and Palliative Care Grand Rounds on January 31. Register in advance for this webinar.
UCSF Pepper Center Scholar Alumni, Drs. Sara LaHue and Jen Lai, collaborated with Dr. John Newman to publish an article in GeroScience entitled "Association of biological aging with frailty and post-transplant outcomes among adults with cirrhosis". Frailty is an important predictor of…
UCSF Pepper Scholar Alumni, Drs. Ashwin Kotwal and Lauren Hunt collaborate with Dr. Alex Smith, UCSF Pepper PESC Co-Director, to publish an editorial in JAMA titled, "A Tale of Two Palliative Care Trials." Dr. Smith was additionally interviewed for a JAMA podcast.
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