A Tale of Two Palliative Care Trials
January 15, 2024
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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Music engagement as part of everyday life in dementia caregiving relationships at home
January 15, 2024
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Comparison of health and retirement study participants with and without linkage to Medicare claims
January 08, 2024
Irena Cenzer, PhD (UCSF Pepper Center Senior Statistician), John Boscardin, PhD (UCSF Pepper Center DAC Co-Director), Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS and Matthew Miller, DPT, PhD (UCSF Pepper Center Scholar Alumni) published a paper entitled "Comparison of health and retirement study participants with and... 
Alex Lee, Sei Lee, and Mike Steinman publishes "Improving the American Diabetes Association Framework for individualizing treatment in older adults: evaluating life expectancy"
October 05, 2020
UCSF Pepper Center, Co-Director and Co-Lead of the Data Analysis Core, Dr. Mike Steinman, and UCSF Co-Lead of the Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core, Dr. Sei Lee publish with Dr. Alexandra Lee on "Improving the American Diabetes Association Framework for individualizing treatment in older adults:... 
Pepper Scholar Dr. Elena Portacolone Awarded a 5-year R01 grant
September 21, 2020
Long-time Pepper Scholar Elena Portacolone, Associate Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging, has just been awarded a 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging for the study titled “Access and use of long-term services and supports (LTSS) for older adults living alone with... 
Long Time Pepper Scholar Dr. Krista Harrison Awarded UCSF Claude D. Pepper Older Adults Independence Center Supplement
September 16, 2020
Long Time Pepper Scholar Dr. Krista Harrison, and co-investigators Drs. Ken Covinsky and Alexander Smith were awarded a supplement to the UCSF Claude D. Pepper Older Adults Independence Center. 
Team UCSF Pepper Finished as Top 3 in the VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge
September 02, 2020
From June 2 to July 3, 2020, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Innovation Ecosystem and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge called on the community to develop and evaluate computational models to predict COVID-19 related health outcomes in Veterans. 
REC Scholar, Dr. Scott Bauer, publishes his article "Co‐Occurrence of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Frailty among Community‐Dwelling Older Men"
September 02, 2020
Pepper REC Scholar, Dr. Scott Bauer, publishes his article "Co‐Occurrence of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Frailty among Community‐Dwelling Older Men" in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society.
In this study, Dr. Bauer suggests that Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) and frailty phenotype...