Eric Widera, MD

Dr. Eric Widera is a Professor of Medicine and clinician-educator in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). His main goal is to improve the care provided to elderly patients with severe chronic and/or terminal conditions through program development and educational innovations. Dr. Widera is the Director of the Hospice & Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, a past Board of Directors member for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), and past-president and board chair of the Association of Directors of Geriatrics Academic Programs (ADGAP). Dr. Widera has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA), the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award, the AAHPM Hospice and Palliative Medicine Leaders Under 40 Award, and the AAHPM PDIA Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award. He is also a co-founder of GeriPal, a Geriatrics and Palliative Care blog and podcast, as well as ePrognosis, an online set of prognostic calculators for the elderly.