Thanks, Nathan Gray MD, FACP. This baby sloth drawing is exactly what I needed today.

So moving. The person, the soul within. 👇

Most recent UTSW Media Relations projections for COVID-19 hospitalizations in Dallas County. Please #MaskUp, maintain 6ft of distance between yourself and others and wash your hands.

Dining indoors with people you don't live with increases your risk of getting or spreading Covid.

One of the most impactful things you can do is to get your flu shot—if you love your friends and family (or even if you don’t), encourage them to be vaccinated too. Call now! (It takes up to 2 weeks to build immunity). #FluShot #COVID19 #Influenza

Fantastic Grand Rounds UT Southwestern Internal Medicine #geriatrics by Dr. Anu Gangavati on #COVID19 in #LTC - emphasis on how to combat #ageism

If I have a cup of water, I can put out a stove fire. But I can’t put out a forest fire, even if that water is 100% potent. That’s why everyone must wear a mask. As a nation, we’ll recover faster if you give the vaccine less work to do when it's ready.

All of this 👇 #ThisisGeriatrics

Older adults showing strength and resilience in the face of adversity. Here’s to a better 2021. ⁦#thisisgeriatrics nytimes.com/2021/01/01/nyr…

Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) improves postop outcomes for older adults. It's a proven model at Duke Geriatrics and now successfully implemented at UTSW! Congrats Sarah Wingfield Shelley McDonald! #ThisisGeriatrics JAGS agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

NEW: Dallas County Health and Human Services Reports First Known Case of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 in Dallas County

Delirium is a serious, costly and often preventable complication of elective surgery in older adults.

Congratulations to all the medical students matching today! #MatchDay2021

So..US has worlds most expensive health care system Yet 44% of elders needing equipment to make showering or using toilet safe dont have it Missed chance to prevent falls/improve QOL Thanks Kenneth Lam for letting me part of this work ja.ma/3camydP JAMA Internal Medicine

Complex surgical decision making in older adult. Focus on delirium prevention, goals of care, discuss best case worst case scenarios with patient and assess what matters most to patient. Wonderful set of presentations American Geriatrics Society Sarah Wingfield UT Southwestern Internal Medicine #AGS2021

Most recent COVID-19 Modeling for DFW from our team ⁦UTSW Media Relations⁩. Bottom line: the current surge driven by the Delta variant could be as bad as the surge in winter 2020. But we are not powerless. Time to #maskup and #gettheshot. utsouthwestern.edu/covid-19/about…

Great lecture on polypharmacy by @MikeSteinman for our UTSWIM residents. Looking forward to grand rounds tomorrow. Thomas Wang, MD @dhjutsw1 @DinoKazi

Dr Amaka Opute representing #utswgeriatrics at #GSA2022 Educational@interventions to change prescribing practices especially benzodiazepines and sedatives in postoperative older adults!! So proud of her! Sarah Wingfield Craig Rubin UT Southwestern Internal Medicine

No more trying to explain complex and important forms around end-of-life wishes in a completely different language!! Texas physicians, check it out! Anupama Gangavati UTSW Media Relations TMD Una Makris maddie_rodriguez @TomDaltonMD Texas Medical Association Sarah Wingfield Dallas County Medical Society UT Southwestern Palliative Care

I spy a UT Southwestern Internal Medicine residency graduate describing why he loves geriatrics! Daniel Arteaga UTSW Internal Medicine Chiefs