UC San Diego Geriatrics is ranked 36th out of more than 1500 national programs in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2018-19".

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San Diego Top Doctors!  It is with pleasure that we announce our Division Chief, Dr. Alison Moore, was voted one of San Diego's Top Doctors in the annual "Physicians of Exceptional Excellence" survey.

New Grant Award!  We are excited to announce that we have new funding to establish the "San Diego Resource Center for advancing Alzheimer's Research in Minority Seniors (SDRC-ARMS)"! This is a joint partnership between the UC San Diego Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology and Department of Neurosciences and San Diego State University's Graduate School of Public Health and Department of Psychology. This grant, funded by the National Institute on Aging, will provide five years of important funding to support research investigators in the field and to move forward important research on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias – particularly with a focus on Latinos. 

New Division name: "Geriatrics & Gerontology".  We have changd our division name! We are no longer just the Division of Geriatrics. Instead, we have expanded our name - encompassing not only the efforts of our division in geriatrics, but also gerontology! What is Gerontology?

New Faculty members have joined our team as the Division continues to grow!  We welcome Chris Kaufmann, PhD, and Maile Karris, MD, who have joined our research faculty.  We are also excited to have EB Sladek, MD and Josh Bollan, MD, who are great additions to our clinical faculty.

Congratulations to Stephanie Diana Garcia and Courtney Cyril Hsu! They are both graduating medical students and the 2018 recipients of the Ruth Covell Award in Geriatrics, in recognition of their demonstrated commitment to geriatrics! This award was established in 2017 thanks to the generous support of Dr. Ruth Covell. 

Dr. Roopali Gupta and Dr. Maile Karris were selected for the 2018-2019 Tideswell, AGS and ADGAP Emerging Leaders in Aging Scholars Program!

Congratulations to Dr. Maile Karris, who recently was awarded a GEMSSTAR grant from NIA.  This grant is designed to help people to conduct research in geriatrics who are not geriatrics trained.  Dr. Karris is looking at how behavior can positively impact pain management for chronic pain in patients with HIV, in an attempt to move away from high doses of opioid treatments.

Congratulations to our Medicine For Seniors Clinic staff, who were awarded the UC San Diego Health Clinic of the Month Award.

West Health and the UCSD Division of Geriatrics have partnered to support one of our recent geriatrics fellowship graduates, Dr. Lindsey Yourman, to be trained in a two- year fellowship focused on Quality Improvement and Implementation Science.  We are excited about this partnership to train geriatrics health professionals to improve the care of older adults.

The Rising Price of Medicare Part D's 10 Most Costly Medications.  Recently published article by one of our Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) researchers, looking at how the costs of certain drugs have risen despite there being fewer patients taking them.

The UC San Diego Geriatrics Fellowship Program trains up to three fellows per year. Our fellow for 2018-19 is Sadaf Farasat! (above pic shows our new fellow along with our graduating fellows)  

The goal of our ACGME-accredited Geriatrics Fellowship Program is to develop geriatricians who desire to work in an academic environment and become leaders in the field.

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