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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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…
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:…
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, and co-investigators Drs. Ken Covinsky and Alexander Smith were awarded a supplement to the UCSF Claude D. Pepper Older Adults Independence Center.
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…
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…
