Response to COVID-19

Alex Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Associate Professor, UCSF Dept. of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics will be sharing his experience from performing teleconsults in New York at this week's UCSF Department of Medicine Grand Rounds (Zoom only), on Thursday, April 30 @12-1:30PM.

Rebecca Sudore, MD and Sarah Hooper, led a National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Webinar on advance care planning during Covid-19.  Check out the recording here.  

Drs. Eric Widera, Alex Smith, Rebecca Sudore, Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint are providing palliative care telemedicine consults to patients in the New York Presbyterian (NYP) Emergency Department.

Julia Cremer, MD was our first Geriatrics Faculty Attending staffing a new COVID Respiratory Unit at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (SFCJL) this week.  The unit has 30 beds for nursing home residents with COVID-19 and we will staff up to 20 beds on the unit.

Louise Aronson, MD was quoted in Ventilators: Even Equal Access Leaves Vital Questions by the Common Dreams News Center.

Louise Aronson, MD spoke to the New York Times’ Well/Exercise columnist Gretchen Reynolds about Older and Stuck At Home? Exercise Tips from Experts.

Louise Aronson, MD was on NPR’s On Point to discuss Life Inside Nursing Homes During the Coronavirus Crisis with Danielle Ivory of the NY Times and Meghna Chakrabarti.

Laura Perry, MD was quote in a Kaiser Health News report entitled "Seniors with Covid-19 show unusual symptoms, doctors say" now published on CNN.com about 'atypical' presentations of COVID-19 in older adults.

Amend at UCSF, in collaboration with Lawrence Bartley of the Marshall Project, created a PSA entitled “COVID-19 in Correctional Settings for Residents”.  It provides information on COVID-19 for people living in correctional settings.

Cyrus Ahalt, MPP shared information about COVID-19 in the correctional setting to the membership of the correctional officer union for Colorado’s state prison system.