Eric Widera, MD

Co-founder of GeriPal

We are very honored to have Eric Widera, MD as one of our 2021 Conversation Starters! Dr. Eric Widera is a clinician-educator in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF, Director of the Hospice & Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Associate 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).

He is well-respected in the field of hospice and palliative medicine for his education and research, and has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA), the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award, AAHPM Hospice and Palliative Medicine Leaders Under 40 award, and the AAHPM PDIA Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award. You may know him best as a co-founder of GeriPal, a Geriatrics and Palliative Care blog and podcast.

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