Theresa Allison * UCSF Profiles

Theresa Allison, MD, PhD

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Phone	415-221-4810 ext. 25877
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Biography

Awards and Honors

UCSF Division of Geriatrics	2016		Teacher of the Year
Department of Veterans Affairs	2013		Special Contribution Award
Department of Veterans Affairs	2103		Superstar Award
American Geriatrics Society	2011		New Investigator Award
American Geriatrics Society	2009		Best Poster, Quality of Life Section
P.E.O.	2001		Doctoral Completion Award
Society for Ethnomusicology	2001		Ida Halpern Award for Research in Native American Music
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1997 -	1999	Teachers Ranked Outstanding by their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1994 -	1995	Teachers Ranked Outstanding by their Students

Overview

Theresa A. Allison, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, with a secondary appointment in Family and Community Medicine. She completed the MD in 2002 and PhD in Musicology in 2010, through the University of Illinois Medical Scholars Program. She completed family practice residency in 2005 and geriatric fellowship in 2007, at UCSF. Her primary appointment is in the San Francisco VA Health Care System, where she works in Home Based Primary Care Program (HBPC), as part of an interprofessional care team providing home-based medical care for vulnerable older veterans. Dr. Allison’s research bridges between the medical humanities and the health sciences. Her research areas include the role of music in creating community in nursing homes; the potential for music to improve quality of life in dementia caregiving relationships; and the perceived health effects of singing in senior center choirs.

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Publications

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Win AZ, Ceresa C, Arnold K, Allison TA. High Prevalence of Malnutrition among Elderly Veterans in Home Based Primary Care. J Nutr Health Aging. 2017; 21(6):610-613. PMID: 28537323.

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Allison TA, Cohen JM, Reed DB.Journal of Folklore Research, guest-edited by TA Allison, JM Cohen and DB Reed. Introduction: Toward common cause: Music, team science and global health. 2017; 54(1-2):1-14.
Romo RD, Allison TA, Smith AK, Wallhagen MI. Sense of Control in End-of-Life Decision-Making. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Mar; 65(3):e70-e75. PMID: 28029695.

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Johnson JK, Nápoles AM, Stewart AL, Max WB, Santoyo-Olsson J, Freyre R, Allison TA, Gregorich SE. Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of the Community of Voices choir intervention to promote the health and well-being of diverse older adults. BMC Public Health. 2015 Oct 13; 15:1049. PMID: 26463176; PMCID: PMC4603966.

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Allison TA.This Thing Called Music. V Levine and P Bohlman (Eds.). Recording the Life Review: A Case Study from the Medical Humanities. 2015.
Allison TA.In Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Geriatrics. CS Landefeld, B Williams and A Chang (Eds.). Long-Term Care, Nursing Home and Rehabilitation. 2014.
Allison TA, Sudore RL. Disregard of patients' preferences is a medical error: comment on "Failure to engage hospitalized elderly patients and their families in advance care planning". JAMA Intern Med. 2013 May 13; 173(9):787. PMID: 23545699.

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Allison TA.Ethnomusicology. Book review: The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing through Music and the Arts. 2013; 57(1):137-141.
The nursing home as village: lessons from ethnomusicology. Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts. 2010; 4(3):276-91.
Allison TA.Transcending the Limitations of Institutionalized Aging Through Music: Ethnomusicology in the Nursing Home. PhD dissertation. 2010.
Allison TA.The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology, Koen B, Barz G and Brummel-Smith K, Eds. Songwriting and transcending institutional boundaries in the nursing home. 2008.