EricWalterWideraMD
Geriatrics • San Francisco, CAHospice and Palliative Medicine
Professor, Division of Geriatrics, UCSF
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Office
4150 Clement St # 181nh
San Francisco, CA 94121Phone+1 415-221-4810- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Eric Widera is a clinician-educator in the Division of Geriatrics. His main goal is to improve the care provided to elderly patients with severe chronic and/or terminal conditions through program development and educational innovations. Eric accomplishes this through various leadership roles, including Director of the Hospice & Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Program Director for the Geriatrics Fellowship at UCSF. He is also on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).
Education & Training
University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine), 2005 - 2006
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2005- University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2002
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2005 - 2025
NY State Medical License 2003 - 2005- American Board of Internal Medicine Geriatric Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsFellowship-trained physicians who let their geriatric medicine certification lapse: A national survey.Kathryn Ross, Lorna Lynn, Kevin T Foley, Steven R Barczi, Eric Widera, Susan Parks, Clare Luz, Jessica L Colburn, Bruce Leff> ;Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2024 Apr 1
- Law not loopholes: Medical aid in dying for those with dementia.Joshua Briscoe, Eric Widera> ;Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2024 Apr 1
- Who gets to decide on what it means to have Alzheimer's disease?Widera, E.> ;Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2024 Feb 12
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Journal Articles
- Geriatrics Literature 2017 Year in ReviewKaitlin Willham, Kenneth Covinsky, Eric Widera, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Authored Content
- Life After the Diagnosis: A Podcast with Steve PantilatJuly 2017
Press Mentions
Project ENABLE: Podcast with Marie Bakitas and Nick Dionne-OdomMarch 12th, 2020
Worries About Accuracy of Widely Used Dementia Test Prompt Training RequirementAugust 22nd, 2019
#116 Geriatric Psychiatry – Dementia PearlsSeptember 27th, 2018- Join now to see all
Professional Memberships
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Hospital Affiliations
San Francisco VA Medical CenterSan Francisco, California
External Links
- GeriPalhttp://www.geripal.org
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