
Louise Aronson, MD MFA, is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elderhood, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine among other publications. Recognition of Louise’s work includes a MacDowell fellowship, four Pushcart nominations, the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award, and a Gold Professorship for Humanism in Medicine.
“… look at the final third of life with the same concern, curiosity, creativity, and rigor as we view the first two-thirds.”
Louise in the Media
See under #COVID19 ‘lockdowns of seniors’ via @TIME or leading medical information outlets like @UCSF talking about pandemic weekly and focusing on age just twice despite 89% of deaths in elders in #SanFrancisco twitter.com/rachellekcmo/s…
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