LouiseAronsonMDMFA

Professor, Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine Chief of Geriatrics Education

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490 Illinois Street
Floor o8
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone+1 415-514-3154

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University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine), 1996 - 1998
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1992 - 1995
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1992

PubMed

To Provide Care, or to Care for?: The Influence of Language on Medicine.
Anna L Park, Louise Aronson, Mohammad Diab
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume. 2025-03-05
Age Self Care, a program to improve aging in place through group learning and incremental behavior change: Preliminary data.
Tracy Nguyen, Belinda Tang, Krista L Harrison, Susanne Stadler, Louise C Walter
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2025-03-01
Age Self Care-Resilience, a medical group visit program targeting pre-frailty: A mixed methods pilot clinical trial.
Julia V Loewenthal, Wren Burton, Shaida Kamali, Subha Ramani, Peter M Wayne
The Journal of Frailty & Aging. 2025-02-01

Journal Articles

Age, Complexity, and Crisis — A Prescription for Progress in Pandemic
Louise Aronson, MD, The New England Journal of Medicine
Story as Evidence, Evidence as Story
Aronson, L, JAMA, 7/14/2015

Age, Complexity, and Crisis — A Prescription for Progress in PandemicApril 2020
Age, Complexity, and Crisis — A Prescription for Progress in PandemicApril 2020
Louise Aronson: ‘COVID-19 Kills Only Old People.’ Only?March 2020
‘Covid-19 Kills Only Old People.’ Only?March 2020
‘Covid-19 Kills Only Old People.’ Only?March 2020
Her CAT Scan Looked like Someone Had Spilled InkOctober 2019
Her CAT Scan Looked like Someone Had Spilled InkOctober 2019
A New NIH Rule Won’t Be Enough to Make Clinical Research More InclusiveJanuary 2019
A New NIH Rule Won’t Be Enough to Make Clinical Research More InclusiveJanuary 2019
A New NIH Rule Won’t Be Enough to Make Clinical Research More InclusiveJanuary 2019
U.S. Hospitals Ignore Improving Elder Care. That’s a MistakeNovember 2018
Elder Care Improvements Ignored in U.S. HospitalsNovember 2018
Elder Care Improvements Ignored in U.S. HospitalsNovember 2018
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How Medicine Fails Older PeopleOctober 1st, 2024
The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has AcceleratedApril 14th, 2023
Matthew Defeo for the New York TimesMay 14th, 2022
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