Response to COVID-19

David Cloud, JD, MPH, Dallas Augustine, MA, Cyrus Ahalt, MPP and Brie Williams, MD, MS released a brief entitled “The Ethical Use of Medical Isolation – Not Solitary Confinement – to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Correctional Settings”.  The brief clarifies

Brie Williams, MD, MS and Cyrus Ahalt, MPP along with colleagues Benjamin Howell, Haiyan Ramirez Batlle, Shira Shavit, Emily Wang and Nickolas Zaller recently published a post on HealthAffairs Blog entitled “Protecting Decarcerated Populations In The Era of COVID-19: Priorities For Emergency Discharge Planning”.

Leah Rorvig, MD developed a webinar entitled “Prognostication in Correctional Healthcare During COVID-19” which provides a framework for understanding the art and science of prognostication, and offers guidance for correctional healthcare professionals seeking to provide medical justification for early release (or “compassionate release”) in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Laura Perry, MD published an paper entitled, "To All Doctors: What You Can Do to Help as a Bunch of Old People Are About to Get Sick and Die" in JAGS.

UCSF Division of Geriatrics donated to Feed the Line, the organization that has been supplying lunch to the UCSF Office of Population Health and Accountable Care each week during the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantine.  This week, their Thursday lunch is supported in part by the Division of Geriatrics.  The Division wants to thank everyone working in UCSF Office of Population Health and all the volunteers that are supporting our comm

Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS was interviewed in an article entitled "To Combat Social Isolation in Seniors, Craft a Holistic System of Care" published in Build Healthy Places Network's site and

Todd James, MD and John Newman, MD, PhD contributed to a JAGS letter to the Editor entitled, "Collaborative Delirium Prevention in the Age of COVID‐19".

Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS was interviewed in an article entitled, "Isolation is linked to decline for seniors. That makes social distancing a frightening prospect" in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dr. Brie Williams is developing COVID-19 policies for prisons and jails, including helping lawyers know the difference between solitary confinement and medical isolation so they can advocate for the right things.  She also helped get funding for a group of graduate students to provide hand sanitizer to prisons.  Dr.

Dr. Michael Steinman is Co-Chairing a national task force focused on improving medication management in post-acute and long-term care, which also reduces unnecessary nurse contact.