Welcome to the UC San Diego Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care

Our Mission: To optimize the experience of aging through excellence in clinical care, inspired teaching, and transformative research.

Our Vision: To create a better world for aging people.

We are ranked 13th out of more than 1500 national programs in "2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report"

Spotlight

We are pleased to announce that our Division Chief, Dr. Alison Moore, has recently been appointed in a new role for the UC San Diego Department of Medicine as Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). In this role, Dr. Moore will provide vision and leadership to promote a departmental culture that values and supports diversity, equity and inclusion. She will be responsible for evaluating and improving the practices of all divisions within the department, including their recruitment and retention strategies for faculty and trainees, and ensuring a supportive and welcoming climate.

Dr. Moore is a nationally recognized geriatrician, scientist and educator in her field, with a longstanding commitment and extensive expertise in aging research focused on diverse populations of older adults and career development as exemplified by her involvement in multiple training programs and service to aging research organizations. She has mentored dozens of early stage investigators, including many investigators who are women, and/or from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds, and in 2019, was recognized with a UCSD Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award. As chief of the UC San Diego Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care, she leads the division’s efforts to optimize the experience of aging through excellence in clinical care, inspired teaching, and transformative research. She also leads the NIA-funded San Diego Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR), whose major goals are to support career development of underrepresented investigators and fill critical gaps in research related to Alzheimer’s and related dementias (ADRD) with a focus on Latino populations.

Support Us

Join us in helping seniors live their best lives longer. Addressing the needs of our older adults is important now more than ever! Your donations ensure that our research and clinical care keep pace with the needs of our community and ensure our initiatives to further educate the geriatrics work force remain strong and expand.

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Donor Spotlight

Our generous donors support geriatrics/aging research and education. To learn more about our donors, click here.

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Division News

Ending the Pandemic Begins Now: The first allocation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has arrived at UC San Diego Health and the first doses are going to health care workers at UC San Diego Health who are deemed at greatest risk of exposure to COVID-19!

Dr. Khai Nguyen, Chief of Clinical Services, Receiving the Covid-19 vaccine on 12/18/20.

Even with actual vaccinations starting, we must continue to follow all current measures designed to slow viral spread and infection! Stay healthy and safe!

Looking for COVID-19 resources specific to older adults? Visit our resources page here!

What is the time to benefit of statin therapy for primary

prevention of cardiovascular events in adults aged 50 to 75 years? Researchers conducted a meta-analysis in hopes of pinning down the time to benefit (TTB) of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular (CV) events in older adults. Click here to read Dr. Yourman's publication at JAMA Internal Medicine "Evaluation of Time to Benefit of Statins for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Adults Aged 50 to 75 Years. A Meta-analysis".

UCSD Geriatrics #13 in the nation!

Thanks to everyone for their part in getting us to this wonderful place! We are proud to be ranked #13 among geriatrics programs in USNWR! Our division’s mission is to optimize the experience of aging through excellence in clinical care, inspired teaching and transformative research. In the last year, UCSD became the first healthcare system in San Diego to be recognized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as an Age-Friendly Health System-Committed to Care Excellence and our population health programs keep seniors healthy, supported and safe in their communities.

Announcements

Researchers at UC San Diego are investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and productivity of early career scientists. The goal is to identify factors that might promote success and prevent the broadening of disparities in the research workforce.

We invite post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty (rank no higher than Assistant Professor or equivalent) to complete an online survey, which should take approximately 15 minutes. All responses are confidential. Participants will be entered in a raffle for a $25 gift card. Click here to participate!

The website for the new San Diego Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging, a collaboration between Salk, SBP, and UCSD, is now live! Check it out!

GRC Seminar Series is back with an exciting fall and winter schedule. We regularly distribute our newsletter informing our community about research opportunities, publications and local events. Career development and training pertaining to gerontology research are also provided.

Subscribe now by sending an email to: gero@ucsd.edu

Funding Opportunities

The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation is a California non-profit public benefit corporation funded to support medical research in the areas of diabetes mellitus and diseases associated with aging. The Foundation has made three funding opportunities available:

Start-Up Grant: to qualified researchers to initiate independent research careers in one of the two areas of stated interest to the Hillblom Foundation. Maximum Funding$70,000 per year Application Deadline January 29, 2021

Fellowship Grant: to enable Qualified Institutions to provide post-doctoral research fellowship training to qualified applicants in one of the two areas of stated interest to the Hillblom Foundation. Maximum Funding$65,000 per year Application Deadline January 29, 2021

Network Grant: to facilitate interaction between a network of researchers. It is anticipated that these investigators will be independently funded and have demonstrated productivity in their own field. Maximum Funding$300,000 per year LOI Deadline January 29, 2021. Full Application Deadline August 27.

NIA Concepts Newly Approved: Check the NIA blog listing areas that may turn into funding announcements in the future.

Education

Fellowship: We are thrilled to report that we have three fantastic fellows joining us for the 2021-22 year! Find out more about our program and incoming fellows here.

More Information

Geriatrics Grand Rounds: Join us for our monthly series, with a range of talks from experts in the Geriatrics field. Next session will be on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. To obtain log-in information, please email jathomas@health.ucsd.edu

lmproving Geriatrics Education in the Community: SDSU and UCSD are co-leads on a Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant to continue the San Diego/Imperial Geriatric Education Center and its important work educating local communities on Alzheimer's Disease and geriatrics!

Looking for a good read? You might enjoy Dr. Louise Aronson's book titled: “Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life". We were fortunate to host Dr. Aronson on the UCSD campus with a lunch event that brought together over 100 community members!

We are tremendously grateful to the Hollander Trust for their generous donation in support of our geriatrics fellowship program in memory of Dr. Trude Hollander.