Louise Aronson, MD, MFA

  • Faculty Emerius, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health
Lousie Aronson

Experience

Dr. Louise Aronson is a geriatrician, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. Her writing appears in publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Discover Magazine, and the New England Journal of Medicine and has earned her four Pushcart nominations, the Sonora Review Prize, and a MacDowell fellowship. Her work has been featured on CBS This Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, Politico, LitHub, Kaiser Health News, and Tech Nation.

Education and Training

  • Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Arizona
  • Geriatrics Fellowship, UCSF
  • Internal Medicine Residency, UCSF
  • Warren Wilson Program for Writers, MFA
  • Harvard Medical School, MD
  • Brown University, BA

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