News & Events: High Risk Surgical Patient Care

Jennifer Kaplan, M.D., a research resident in the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, received the award for Best Trainee Poster Presentation from the Academy for Healthcare Improvement (AHI) at the organization's 2015 annual meeting.  The presentation, "Health Coaching By Health Professions Students for Frail Older Adults Scheduled for High Risk Elective Surgery", was developed by members of a multidisciplinary research group in the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA). In addition to lead presenter Jennifer Kaplan, MD, collaborators in the development of the presentation [...]

A research team at the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA)  including faculty, research residents, staff and students, gave a poster presentation about the UCSF Surgery Wellness Program entitled, Get Fit for Surgery: An Interdisciplinary Geriatric Surgery Wellness Program, at the 5th Annual Quality and Safety Symposium hosted by the UCSF Department of Medicine on May 28, 2015. The presentation reported on early results on this new clinical intervention, which launched in February 2015 at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay  The goal of the Quality and Safety Innovation Challenge [...]

Drs. Emily Finlayson and Jennifer Kaplan received the Innovations Funding for Education Award for their proposal: 'Integrating Interprofessional Learners in High Risk Surgical Patient Care'.  Funded by the Academy of Medical Educators Innovation Program, the UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management/UCSF Program in Interprofessional Education, and Tideswell at UCSF, their novel new education model links trainee learning with future practice of highly interdisciplinary care of older surgical patients. This longitudinal curriculum for early medical and nurse practitioner students [...]

UCSF News reports on a new tool to assess health risks for older adults designed for physicians to assess their geriatric patients in a medical setting: Calculating medical risk can be an inexact science, especially for older adults, with many factors from the environment to chronic diseases helping determine how long a person lives. Now, a UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine – and perhaps influence – senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates. This tool is designed for physicians to assess their geriatric patients in a medical setting. It is not meant for [...]