OVERVIEW:
Dr. Rebecca Sudore is a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, implementation scientist, and clinician investigator. She also directs the Innovation and Implementation Center in Aging & Palliative Care and the Vulnerable Aging Research Core of the NIA-funded Pepper Center.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
Dr. Sudore has dedicated her research career to making medical information easier for patients and their families to understand. Specifically, she conducts research to improve advance care planning (ACP) and medical decision-making for culturally and ethnically diverse older adults. To this end, she has designed, tested, and disseminated innovative, person-centered tools, including an online care planning program (PREPAREforYourCare.org) in English and Spanish; the PREPARE easy-to-read, values-based advance directives (available for all US states in several languages); and the PREPARE for THEIR Care caregiver program. She is also dedicated to mentoring the next generation of geriatrics and palliative care researchers.

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES:
For over two decades, Dr. Sudore provided primary care to vulnerable, older Veterans in the Geriatrics clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She also continues to attend on the inpatient Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA where she provides supportive care to people with serious illnesses and their families and supervises and instructs trainees.