UCSF Division of Geriatrics Welcomes Six New Faculty

Dr. Luz Verma joined the Division of Geriatrics on 4/23/19 as Assistant Professor of Medicine in our UCSF Care at Home Program.  Dr. Verma received her MD at Boston University, completed an Internal Medicine Residency, a Rheumatology Fellowship and a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and worked at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland for four years before joining our division.

Dr. Laura Perry will join the Division of Geriatrics on 7/1/19 as Assistant Professor of Medicine in our UCSF Care at Home Program as well as providing geriatrics consultations in UCSF Hematology-Bone Marrow Transplant clinic and Geriatrics Inpatient Services.  Dr. Perry received her MD at Emory, completed an Internal Medicine Residency at George Washington University, a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at Harvard and worked at Highland Hospital in Oakland for two years before joining our division.

Dr. Chris Cassel will join the Division of Geriatrics on 7/1/19 as Professor of Medicine and Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy for the Department of Medicine.  Dr. Cassel was Chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dean of Oregon Health & Science University, President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the National Quality Forum and Planning Dean for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.  Dr. Cassel was on Barack Obama’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and served as a UCSF Presidential Chair this past year before joining our division.

Dr. Kana McKee will join the Division of Geriatrics on 7/7/19 as Associate Professor of Medicine in our SFVAHCS Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic.  Dr. McKee received her MD at Duke University, completed her Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF, worked as a hospitalist at SFVAHCS for four years before returning to complete a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at UCSF.  She was faculty in the UCSF Hospital Medicine division for two years before returning to SFVAHCS to join our division.

Dr. Julia Cremer will join the Division of Geriatrics on 8/5/19 as Assistant Professor of Medicine in our UCSF Geriatrics Inpatient Services at Moffitt-Long Hospital.  Dr. Cremer received her MD at the University of Arizona and completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at Stanford University before joining our division.

Dr. Ashwin Kotwal will join the Division of Geriatrics on 8/5/19 as Assistant Professor of Medicine and clinician-investigator at SFVAHCS with a clinical focus on palliative care telemedicine.  Dr. Kotwal received his master’s degree in biostatistics and MD from the University of Chicago, completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Geriatric & Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UCSF before joining our division.