James Deardorff, MD

Education
06/2023 - T32 Aging Research Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
06/2021 - Geriatrics Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
06/2020 - Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
MD, 05/2017 - Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine
BS, 06/2013 - Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Websites
Publications

  2. Deardorff WJ, Tominaga G, Harrison JD, Weerahandi H, Miller MJ, Yukawa M, Lam K. Can I Stay, or Must I Go Now? A Cohort Study of Discharge Appeals in a Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility. 2026. PMID: 41644102


  4. Deardorff WJ, Burke RE, Makam AN. Navigating Postacute Care Options for Patients After Hospital Discharge: A Review. 2026. PMID: 41557438


  5. Deardorff WJ, Lee AK, Lu K, Jing B, Boscardin WJ, DiTomas M, Dunlap J, Williams BA, Lee SJ, Smith AK. Development of a Mortality Prediction Model for Incarcerated Adults to Identify Palliative Care Needs. 2025. PMID: 41410864


  6. Growdon ME, Tjota N, Campbell R, Gayda P, Jing B, Deardorff WJ, McCarthy LM, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Decision-Making and Downstream Outcomes of the Gabapentinoid-Diuretic Prescribing Cascade. 2025. PMID: 41329486


  7. Harrison KL, Jeon SY, Deardorff WJ, Lee AK, Hunt LJ, Ankuda C, Aldridge MD, Covinsky KE, Cenzer I, Boscardin WJ, Lee SJ, Smith AK. Six-Month Prognostic Tool for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia. 2025. PMID: 41129312


  9. Growdon ME, Jing B, Deardorff WJ, Morris EJ, Boscardin WJ, Blank LJ, Bongiovanni T, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Loop diuretics and subsequent use of urinary symptom medications in older adults: evaluation of a possible prescribing cascade. 2025. PMID: 40668217


  10. Williams CYK, Subramanian CR, Ali SS, Apolinario M, Askin E, Barish P, Cheng M, Deardorff WJ, Donthi N, Ganeshan S, Huang O, Kantor MA, Lai AR, Manchanda A, Moore KA, Muniyappa AN, Nair G, Patel PP, Santhosh L, Schneider S, Torres S, Yukawa M, Hubbard CC, Rosner BI. Physician- and Large Language Model-Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries. 2025. PMID: 40323616


  11. Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Motmans B, Boscardin WJ, Blank LJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Household Wealth and Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Persons With Dementia: Role of Comorbidities and Caregivers. 2025. PMID: 40503752


  13. Lam K, Harrison JD, Haller L, Deardorff WJ, Sudore RL, Covinsky KE, Matlock DD, Dohan D. "Nobody Can Be Equipped for This": Advice From New Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities. 2025. PMID: 40035442


  14. Avelino-Silva TJ, Lee SJ, Covinsky KE, Walter LC, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin J, Campora F, Szlejf C, Suemoto CK, Smith AK. External Validation of the Walter Index for Posthospitalization Mortality Prediction in Older Adults. 2025. PMID: 39841475


  15. Jing B, Liu X, Graham LA, Dave CV, Li Y, Fung K, Liu CK, Abdel Magid HS, Growdon ME, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin WJ, Lee SJ, Steinman MA, Odden MC. Deprescribing of Antihypertensive Medications and Cognitive Function in Nursing Home Residents. 2024. PMID: 39312220


  16. Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Blank LJ, Bongiovanni T, Yaffe K, Boscardin WJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Impact of hospitalizations on problematic medication use among community dwelling persons with dementia. 2024. PMID: 39155601


  17. Zimbroff RM, Deardorff WJ, Song S, Nikolov MC, Growdon ME. Use of a Financial Incentive Code for In-Home COVID-19 Vaccination of Homebound Older Adults. 2024. PMID: 38900454


  19. Growdon ME, Jing B, Morris EJ, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin WJ, Byers AL, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Which older adults are at highest risk of prescribing cascades? A national study of the gabapentinoid-loop diuretic cascade. 2024. PMID: 38547357


  20. Deardorff WJ, Jeon SY, Barnes DE, Boscardin WJ, Langa KM, Covinsky KE, Mitchell SL, Lee SJ, Smith AK. Development and External Validation of Models to Predict Need for Nursing Home Level of Care in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia. 2023. PMID: 38048097


  21. Deardorff WJ, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ. Around the EQUATOR with Clin-STAR: Prediction modeling opportunities and challenges in aging research. 2023. PMID: 38032070


  22. Deardorff WJ, Lu K, Jing B, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Fung KZ, Lee SJ. Frequency of Screening for Colorectal Cancer by Predicted Life Expectancy Among Adults 76-85 Years. 2023. PMID: 37676665


  24. Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Yaffe K, Boscardin WJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA. Medication misuse and overuse in community-dwelling persons with dementia. 2023. PMID: 37272899


  26. Deardorff WJ, Barnes DE, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Langa KM, Covinsky KE, Mitchell SL, Whitlock EL, Smith AK, Lee SJ. Development and External Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia. 2022. PMID: 36156062


  29. Jing B, Boscardin WJ, Deardorff WJ, Jeon SY, Lee AK, Donovan AL, Lee SJ. Comparing Machine Learning to Regression Methods for Mortality Prediction Using Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record Clinical Data. 2022. PMID: 35352701


  32. Deardorff WJ, Binford SS, Cole I, James T, Rathfon M, Rennke S, Wallhagen M. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. 2021. PMID: 34228350


  33. Deardorff WJ, Sloane RJ, Pavon JM, Hastings SN, Whitson HE. Hospitalization Risk Among Older Adults with Sensory Impairments: Development of a Prognostic Model. 2020. PMID: 32852787


  34. Gholkar AA, Schmollinger S, Velasquez EF, Lo YC, Cohn W, Capri J, Dharmarajan H, Deardorff WJ, Gao LW, Abdusamad M, Whitelegge JP, Torres JZ. Regulation of Iron Homeostasis through Parkin-Mediated Lactoferrin Ubiquitylation. 2020. PMID: 32786404


  35. Deardorff WJ, Liu PL, Sloane R, Van Houtven C, Pieper CF, Hastings SN, Cohen HJ, Whitson HE. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. 2019. PMID: 30924932


  40. Nieto RA, Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT. Efficacy of rivastigmine tartrate, transdermal system, in Alzheimer's disease. 2016. PMID: 26918774


  41. Deardorff WJ, Feen E, Grossberg GT. The Use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors Across All Stages of Alzheimer's Disease. 2015. PMID: 26033268


  42. Gholkar AA, Senese S, Lo YC, Capri J, Deardorff WJ, Dharmarajan H, Contreras E, Hodara E, Whitelegge JP, Jackson PK, Torres JZ. Tctex1d2 associates with short-rib polydactyly syndrome proteins and is required for ciliogenesis. 2015. PMID: 25830415