Response to COVID-19

Louise Aronson, MD served on a panel to discuss "How will COVID-19 impact the future of aging and aging services?" at the

Louise Aronson, MD is quoted in "Don’t let ageism stop you from talking about longevity" published in Investment News. Dr. Aronson was quoted, "how you think about getting older strongly influences your health and emotional well-being in your later years".

Helen Kao, MD coordinated a virtual talk with Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS and Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS on Loneliness during COVID for the Oregon Geriatrics Society and the Oregon Hospice and Palliative Care Association in June.

Alex Smith, MD moderated a discussion for the UCSF Alumni Association entitled "Looking Past COVID-19: Will Telehealth Endure?" (Click on link to view video). Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS served as a panelist and speaker for the discussion.

Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, Rebecca Newmark, BA, Irena Cenzer, MA, Alex Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Ken Covinsky, MD, MPH, Danielle Escueta, BS, Jina Lee, BS, and Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS published their r

Brie Williams, MD, MS will serve as a panelist at "Community Matters: UCSF and The Bay Area's Fights Against COVID-19" live stream hosted by the Commonwealth Club tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16th at 10am PST. Register here.

Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS was quoted in an article "At 82, My Grandmother Has Lost Her Husband - And The World As She Knows It" in BuzzFeed News.

The Consensus Statement from the Santa Cruz Summit on Solitary Confinement and Health – offers critical updates to the Mandela Rules governing the use of solitary confinement given advances in research and knowledge of the harms of this practice published by Craig Haney PhD, Brie Williams MD, and

David Cloud, JD, MPH was quoted, “the effectiveness of medical isolation is even more inhibited if the distinction from punitive solitary confinement isn’t clearly communicated because it can deter the sick from coming forward”, in the article ‘They were punishing me for getting sick’.

Brie Williams, MS, MD and Stefano Bertozzi, PhD, MD were interviewed by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for the article Prison should not be a COVID-19 death sentence.