Response to COVID-19

Drs. Daphne Lo and Theresa Allison mentored a group of trainees from March 2020-Dec 2020 through ongoing quality improvement projects centered around video visit adoption in SFVAHCS Home Based Primary Care as part of a new UCSF School of Medicine COVID elective administered through the UCSF Bridges Clinical Microsystems Clerkship led by Drs.

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Ashwin Kotwal, MD was a panelist on 12/17 at a Massachusetts General Hospital Senior Health Virtual Town Hall discussing the importance of community during COVID-19 and strategies to overcome isolation.

Ashwin Kotwal, MD is quoted in an article entitled "Are coronavirus vaccines safe for nursing home residents? Here’s what the experts say" published in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Meredith Greene, MD serves on one of the State committees related to Covid-vaccine, the California Department of Public Health Long Term Care facilities workgroup.

Michi Yukawa, MD and Candace Kim, MD serve as facilitators for the newly launched AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network. Their cohort consists of  >115 participants from 35 nursing homes throughout Northern California.

Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS was quoted in an article entitled "There's No Stopping These Seniors; Even A Pandemic Can't Bring Them Down" published in NPR.

Lingsheng Li, MD and Elizabeth Dzeng, MD wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "Health care workers’ plea: You can save more lives than we can".

Louise Aronson, MD was asked to serve on a State of California workgroup on Covid-19 in memory care.

Ashwin Kotwal, MD and Louise Aronson, MD were featured on KQED and NPR’s Marketplace discussing Why Some Seniors Are More Resilient During the Pandemic.