Louise Aronson

Louise Aronson is a distinguished Geriatrician and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where responsibilities include directing the Northern California Geriatric Education Center, Geriatrics Education, the School of Medicine Scholarly Concentrations program, and the UCSF Medical Humanities program. Clinical practice focuses on serving diverse, vulnerable, homebound older adults through the Housecalls Program. As an accomplished writer, Louise is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life" (2019) and the short story collection "A History of the Present Illness" (2013), and has received a MacDowell fellowship along with four Pushcart nominations. Academic qualifications include an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and an AB in History/Medical Anthropology from Brown University.