Louise Aronson, MD
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Title(s) | Professor, Medicine |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 490 Illinois Street San Francisco CA 94158
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Phone | 415-502-1000 ext. 14595 |
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Biography Brown University | BA | 1986 | History, Medical Anthropology | Harvard University | M.D. | 1992 | School of Medicine | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | Residency | | Internal Medicine | UCSF | Fellowship | 1996 | Primary Care/Medical Education | UCSF | Fellowship | 1998 | Geriatrics | Warren Wilson Program for Writers | MFA | 2006 | Creative Writing | University of California | | 2018 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | University of Arizona | Fellowship | 2020 | Integrative Medicine |
Wayne State University | 2020 | | Bonner Book Award | Pulitzer Prizes | 2020 | | Pulitzer Prize finalist, General Nonfiction | Next Avenue | 2019 | | 2019 Influencer in Aging | UNECOM | 2019 | | Humanism in Aging Leadership Award | MacDowell Colony | 2017 | | Fellowship Award | Association of American Medical Colleges | 2016 | | Jordan J Cohen lecture | American Geriatrics Society | 2014 | | Outstanding Mid-Career Clinical Teacher | Alpha Omega Alpha | 2014 | | National Honor Medical Society | Arnold P. Gold Foundation | 2013 | | Gold Professorship for Humanism in Medicine | UCSF Division of Geriatrics | 2012
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| 2014 | Lieberman Scholar Award | Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society | 2010
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| 2011 | Edward D. Harris Professionalism Award | UCSF Academy of Medical Educators | 2010
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| 2011 | Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Hedgebrook Foundation | 2010
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| 2011 | Writer's Award | UCSF Pathways to Discovery | 2009
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| 2010 | Mentor Award | UCSF Academy of Medical Educators | 2009
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| 2010 | Membership | UCSF Academy of Medical Educators | 2009
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| 2010 | Teaching Award | Western Group on Educational Affairs | 2009
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| 2010 | Poster Award | Ragdale Foundation | 2009
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| 2010 | Writer's Award | UCSF | 2008
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| 2010 | Medical Education Research Fellowship | Sonora Review | 2007
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| 2008 | Story Prize | Bureau of Health Professions | 2007
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| 2010 | Geriatric Academic Career Award | UCSF | 2007
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| 2008 | Teaching Scholar | New Millennium Writings | 2006
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| 2007 | Short Fiction Award | UCross Foundation | 2006
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| 2007 | Writer's Award | Northern California Geriatrics Education Center | 2005
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| 2006 | Geriatrics Faculty Scholar | California Association for Health Services at Home | 1997
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| 1998 | Physician of the Year Award |
Overview Louise Aronson, MD MFA, is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. At UCSF, Louise has served as director of the Pathways to Discovery program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center, the Optimizing Aging Project, and as Chief of Geriatrics Education. Her writing credits include the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, Discover, Vox, JAMA, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and she has been featured on TODAY, CBS This Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Politico, Kaiser Health News, Tech Nation and the New Yorker. Currently, Dr. Aronson divides her time among patient care, community-based aging innovations, teaching, health advocacy in the media, and writing.
aging, geriatrics, public medical writing, medical humanities, reflective learning, medical education, narrative medicine, preparing non-specialists for care of elderly patients, clinician/trainee attitudes towards the elderly, ethnogeriatrics, wound care, home care, end of life care, primary care.
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Walter L and Chang A. Lange Current Geriatrics. Integrative Geriatrics and Cannabis Use. 2020.
Aronson L and Keyhani S. .
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Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old Age. Clin Geriatr Med. 2020 11; 36(4):549-558.
PMID: 33010893.
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Evidence, Efficacy, and Economics-A Better Path Forward for US Health Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 08 03; 3(8):e2016118.
Aronson L. PMID: 32865570.
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Friedman, S. Clinics in Geriatrics Medicine. Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old Age. 2020.
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Beyond a Moment - Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine. N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 08; 383(15):1404-1406.
PMID: 32722907.
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Story as Evidence, Evidence as Story. JAMA. 2020 May 05; 323(17):1694-1695.
Aronson L. PMID: 32369141.
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Age, Complexity, and Crisis - A Prescription for Progress in Pandemic. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 02; 383(1):4-6.
Aronson L. PMID: 32267649.
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Better Medical Care for the Elderly. Saturday Evening Post. 2020.
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Ageism Is Making the Pandemic Worse. The Atlantic. 2020.
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Coronavirus Reveals Just How Little Compassion We Have for Old People. Vox. 2020.
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Covid19 Kills Only Old People. Only?. New York Times. 2020.
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Bylander, J. Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Healthcare System. How health care fails older patients and how it can be done better. 2020; 209-18.
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Act Three. Harvard Medicine Magazine. 2020.
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We Can Help Men Live Longer. New York Times. 2019.
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A Dire Diagnosis and Multiple Medications. Discover magazine. 2019.
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Evaluation of a Medical Student Research and Career Development Program to Increase Diversity in Academic Medicine. Acad Med. 2019 08; 94(8):1220-1228.
Fernandez A, Chen V, Quan J, Martinez A, Flowers L, Aronson L. PMID: 30998582.
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Is a Person Ever Too Old to Be President?. Washington Post. 2019.
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. 2019.
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Don't Ruin My Life - Aging and Driving in the 21st Century. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 21; 380(8):705-707.
Aronson L. PMID: 30786184.
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NIH Needs to Make Clinical Research More Inclusive. STAT. 2019.
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U.S. Hospitals Ignore Improving Eldercare. That's a Mistake. STAT. 2018.
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Destroyed but Not Defeated. Lancet. 2018; 10137(391):2312.
Marchalik D, Aronson L. .
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Necessary Violence. New England Review. 2017; 3(38).
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Stop Treating 70- and 90-Year Olds the Same. New York Times Sunday Review. 2017.
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A Tale of Two Doctors - Structural Inequalities and the Culture of Medicine. N Engl J Med. 2017 06 15; 376(24):2390-2393.
PMID: 28614681.
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Perspectives of low-income chronically ill patients on complex care management. Fam Syst Health. 2017 Dec; 35(4):399-408.
Mao AY, Willard-Grace R, Dubbin L, Aronson L, Fernandez A, Burke NJ, Finch J, Davis E. PMID: 28447834.
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Case-Based Suffering. Acad Med. 2017 04; 92(4):482.
PMID: 28350612.
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Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me. New York Times. 2017.
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A PIECE OF MY MIND. Story as Evidence, Evidence as Story. JAMA. 2015 Jul 14; 314(2):125-6.
PMID: 26172890.
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Chronic care management for Medicare patients--reply. JAMA. 2015 Jun 09; 313(22):2286-7.
PMID: 26057296.
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Essential steps in developing best practices to assess reflective skill: A comparison of two rubrics. Med Teach. 2016; 38(1):75-81.
PMID: 25923234.
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The Medical System May Treat You Well But Less So After You Reach Age 80. Washington Post. 2015.
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Necessary steps: how health care fails older patients, and how it can be done better. Health Aff (Millwood). 2015 Mar; 34(3):528-32.
PMID: 25732503.
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Medicare and care coordination: expanding the clinician's toolbox. JAMA. 2015 Feb 24; 313(8):797-8.
PMID: 25710653.
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The human lifecycle's neglected stepchild. Lancet. 2015 Feb 07; 385(9967):500-1.
PMID: 25713844.
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Teaching geriatric fellows how to teach: a needs assessment targeting geriatrics fellowship program directors. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Dec; 62(12):2377-82.
PMID: 25516033.
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The Human Lifecycle's Neglected Stepchild. Lancet. 2014; (385):500-501.
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New Buildings for Older People. New York Times. 2014; Nov 1.
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Asking the right questions. Acad Med. 2014 Oct; 89(10):1357.
PMID: 25247543.
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The future of robot caregivers. New York Times. 2014; July 20.
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Lancet. Examining empathy. 2014; 385(9937):16-17.
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How do we tell the stories of medicine? Lancet. 2014 Apr 26; 383(9927):1456-7.
PMID: 24779054.
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Current Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment. Interprofessional Teams in Geriatrics. 2014.
Rivera J, Reeves S, Aronson L. .
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Elder self-neglect--how can a physician help? N Engl J Med. 2013 Dec 26; 369(26):2476-9.
PMID: 24369074.
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"Good" patients and "difficult" patients--rethinking our definitions. N Engl J Med. 2013 Aug 29; 369(9):796-7.
PMID: 23984727.
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The value of medical education programmes: what are the right questions? Med Educ. 2013 Apr; 47(4):333-4.
PMID: 23488750.
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A History of the Present Illness. 2013.
Aronson, L.
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Bruinsma G and Weisburd D (Eds). Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Aging in Correctional Populations: Through the Geriatrician's Lens. 2013.
Williams B, Ahalt C and Aronson L. .
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A comparison of two methods of teaching reflective ability in Year 3 medical students. Med Educ. 2012 Aug; 46(8):807-14.
PMID: 22803758.
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J Am Geriatr Soc. The UCSF Interprofessional Aging and Palliative Care Elective. 2012; 4(60).
Rivera J, Mackin L, Aronson L. .
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The UCSF Faculty Development Workshop on Critical Reflection in Medical Education: Training Educators to Teach and Provide Feedback on Learners’ Reflections. MedEdPORTAL/9086. 2012.
Aronson L, Kruidering M, O'Sullivan P.
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The UCSF LEaP: A Guide for Reflective Learning in Medical Education. MedEdPORTAL/9073. 2012.
Aronson L, Niehaus B, Kruidering M, O’Sullivan P.
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Pressure ulcers in long-term care. Clin Geriatr Med. 2011 May; 27(2):241-58.
PMID: 21641509.
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Development and pilot testing of a reflective learning guide for medical education. Med Teach. 2011; 33(10):e515-21.
Aronson L, Niehaus B, Lindow J, Robertson PA, O'Sullivan PS. PMID: 21942487.
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Do writing and storytelling skill influence assessment of reflective ability in medical students' written reflections? Acad Med. 2010 Oct; 85(10 Suppl):S29-32.
Aronson L, Niehaus B, DeVries CD, Siegel JR, O'Sullivan PS. PMID: 20881698.
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Twelve tips for teaching reflection at all levels of medical education. Med Teach. 2011; 33(3):200-5.
Aronson L. PMID: 20874014.
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MedEdPORTAL. Reflective Ability Rubric and User Guide. 2010; (8133).
OSullivan P; Aronson L; Chittenden E; Niehaus B; Learman L . . View Publication.
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Why geriatrics? Ann Intern Med. 2010 Jan 05; 152(1):61.
Aronson L. PMID: 20048275.
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A faculty development workshop in teaching reflection. Med Educ. 2009 May; 43(5):499.
Aronson L, Chittenden E, O'Sullivan P. PMID: 19422521.
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Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts. The Ethics of Everyday Life. 2009; 2(3):150.
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Osler’s Bedside Library: Great Literature from a Great Physician. LaCombe M (Ed.). Osler, Plutarch and the Intimate Observation of Human Behavior. 2009.
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Medical linguistics. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Dec; 22(12):1781.
Aronson L. PMID: 17924173.
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BARK. A New Breed of Magic: Canine Assistance in Alzheimer’s Care. 2000.
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San Francisco Chronicle. A City Full of the Hidden Homebound. 1999.
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San Francisco Chronicle. The Fear of Losing Who We Are. 1999.
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Examining older people for carotid bruits: listen to your patient, not her neck. J Gen Intern Med. 1998 Feb; 13(2):140-1.
Aronson L, Landefeld CS. PMID: 9502377.
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Traditional Cambodian health beliefs and practices. Rhode Island Medical Journal. 1987; 70(2):73-8.
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Refugee intermediaries and the delivery of health care to Cambodian refugees. Practicing Anthropology. 1987; (November).
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