UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/4…

Exciting news! My grant to expand rural #Veteran access to #yoga is getting funded! Looking forward to launching a new TeleYoga program based at VA San Francisco. #CIH #WholeHealth #IntegrativeHealthEquity

It’s a privilege & honor to share this study- “Home Health Care Worker Experiences in NYC During COVID-19” ja.ma/3fBdHQZ via JAMA Internal Medicine part of JAMA Network - a vulnerable workforce provided frontline, essential care to those who remained at home. Pls read!

Drs. Theresa Allison (Theresa Allison, MD, M. Music, PhD), Anna Oh, and Krista Harrison (@klharrisonPhD) published a commentary on the "Extreme Vulnerability of Home Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic" in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Thread Home health workers are super heroes They provide care making it possible for disabled older persons to stay at home But landmark JAMA Internal Medicine paper shows weve treated them very poorly during COVID despite their valiant efforts #geriatrics /1 ja.ma/31p4Ixa

In which, 12 minutes in, Dr. Covinsky hears a scream...

Treatment of home care workers during COVID should provoke outrage. We need regulatory change to support these skilled professionals.

Important. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

I love it when a leading organization chooses health and health care over caution, tradition and all things that too often limit the impact of medical organizations. I hope many more will follow suit. Bravo NEJM! #MedTwitter Dying in a Leadership Vacuum nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

“So far, the greatest unmet need in successfully fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US relates to the insights provided by the social sciences” Yes & the arts and humanities are also critical to the study of empathy. jamanetwork.com/channels/healt…

"In short, racism kills. Whether through force, deprivation or discrimination, it is a fundamental cause of disease and the strange but familiar root of racial health inequities." On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

#UCSFProud: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris appointed 3 UCSF faculty members to the Biden-Harris Transition #COVID19 Advisory Board. Congrats to Co-Chair David A. Kessler MD, as well as Dr Eric Goosby and Dr. Robert Rodriguez! chancellor.ucsf.edu/blog/biden-har…

Appointing Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith to be one of the doctors to lead the new Coronavirus Task Force, makes it clear that Biden intends to fulfil his promise of following the science — not politics — on the road to stopping the virus. Read the full article at the LINK IN OUR BIO.

Words cannot express the incredible, sudden loss of our beloved Sharon Kaufman over the weekend 😢💔 Incredibly grateful to have spent time with her recently and holding her family, loved ones, and all those touched by her presence in my heart. 1/ #anthrotwitter

Congratulations to NCIRE-supported researcher Dr. Theresa Allison for receiving a NIH Award to support her research project titled “The impact of music on well-being after diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease or its related dementias”!

Congratulations to NCIRE-supported Principal Investigator and Board Member Kristine Yaffe, MD, for being ranked as one of the Top 50 Female Scientists in the U.S. for 2023 by Research.com! Learn more: research.com/scientists-ran…

Get psyched for the Geriatrics Literature Update at #AGS24! My wife Cindy (pictured bottom left) made one prop already. Can you guess the song and parody? For the uninitiated, here’s a view of a prior update: youtu.be/XTtE5DDf0Fw?si…

Music & Dementia Research Summit at AARP—please join us!

Summary - Music & Brain Health Summit Performance events.aarp.org/event/a8020503…