News & Events: Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S.

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 [...]

UCSF News reports that U.S. only a small number of nursing home residents are alive and ambulatory one year after undergoing lower extremity revascularization procedures with those still alive gaining little, if any, function: Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization procedures are alive and ambulatory a year after surgery, according to UCSF researchers, and most patients still alive gained little, if any, function. The study appears in the April 6 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. "Our findings can inform conversations among physicians, [...]

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 [...]

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH  discusses trends and news ideas about surgical outcomes percolating among thought leaders in the field including Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Policy at UCSF, in a post at GeriPal, a geriatrics and palliative care blog. A while back people realized that outcomes of surgery in older people were probably better than previously believed. This led to a widespread perception that we were being ageist by not being aggressive enough in offering surgery to older adults.  We started operating on more older adults. We identified [...]