Alexander Smith, MD, MPH, MS
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Alexander Keliimoeanu O'Haleakala Smith was born in Hilo Hawaii. Sadly, his family moved to East Lansing, Michigan when he was 6 months old. He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan, though in sporting events he roots for both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Smith received his medical school training in the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program. He completed a primary care internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) followed by two fellowships, a one-year clinical fellowship in Palliative Medicine at BWH and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, followed by a two-year General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, including an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Smith returned to UCSF in July 2008 as faculty in the Division of Geriatrics.
Dr. Smith's research is focused on improving quality of life and patient-physician communication for older adults, particularly those with a limited prognosis.
Dr. Smith has been funded by multiple National Institute on Aging Grants, including 2 R01s, Co-PI of a P01 Research Project, a K24, and a K23. He is a prior recipient of Beeson, SGIM/T Franklin Williams Scholar, Greenwall Faculty Scholar, NIA Diversity Supplement, and National Palliative Care Research Center awards.
Dr. Smith is co-founder of ePrognosis.org, an online compendium of prognostic calculators, and with Dr. Eric Widera, he co-founded GeriPal, a geriatrics and palliative care podcast for every healthcare professional.
Dr. Smith is a Executive Editor at JAGS where he co-leads the Junior Reviewer Program for early career faculty-researchers. Dr. Smith plays a major role in organizing the next generation of geriatrics and palliative care researchers through individual mentoring and participation in the National Palliative Care Post-Doc Research Collaborative. He is Director of UCSF's NIA funded T32 program.
From 2017-2019 Dr. Smith served as President of the UCSF Medical Alumni Association.
Awards
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- Eprognosis awarded Product of the Decade, Reynolds Foundation, 2016
- PDIA National Leadership Award, Project on Death in America, 2014
- Research Mentor of the Year, Medical Students in Aging Research, 2013
- Paul Beeson Career Development Award In Geriatrics, American Federation for Aging Research/NIA, 2012-2017
- Top Reviewer, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012
- One of "50 Best Medical Professors on Twitter", OnlineColleges.com, 2012
- Best Paper of the Year Award, Society of General Internal Medicine, 2012
- Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, Greenwall Foundation, 2010-2014
- Outstanding Resident Mentor Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2004-2005
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1996
Education & Training
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- Fellowship General Internal Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2008
- Fellowship Palliative Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute 2006
- Residency Primary Care Internal Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital 2005
- MPH School of Public Health Harvard University 2005
- M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2002
- M.S. School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley 1999
- BS Cellular and Molecular Biology University of Michigan 1996
Interests
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- Prognosis in medical decision making in the elderly
- Clinic
- Decision aids
- Hospital
- Persons with physical disability
- Older adults
- Community-based organization
Websites
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- @@alexsmithmd on Twitter (twitter.com)
- Estimating Prognosis for Elders (ePrognosis.org)
- GeriPal: A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog (geripal.org)
- Twitter (twitter.com)
Videos
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- ePrognosis (youtube.com)
- Healthcare Disparities in Advanced Illness (youtube.com)
- #ThickenedLiquidChallenge (youtube.com)
- GeriPal Podcast: Teaching Communication Skills (youtube.com)
- GeriPal Taste Test: Laxatives (youtube.com)
- GeriPal: Take Out the Trash (youtube.com)
- GeriPal: Opioid Dysmotility Dance (youtube.com)
Grants and Projects
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- Prognostic Indices for Hospitalized Older Adults with and without Alzheimer?s Disease and Related Dementias, NIH, 2023-2028
- Meaningful Activities and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, NIH, 2020-2025
- Research Training in Geriatric Medicine, NIH, 1991-2023
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias, NIH/NIA, 2018-2022
- Prognostic calculators for patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementias, NIH, 2018-2022
- Developing prognostic models for life expectancy and geriatric outcomes, NIH, 2015-2020
- P0045982 Late Life Disability: Epidemiology, Symptoms, Quality of Life, NIH, 2012-2017
Publications (165)
Top publication keywords:
DementiaLonelinessTerminal CareNursing HomesLife ExpectancyIndependent LivingDisabled PersonsActivities of Daily LivingHospicesAdvance Care PlanningHip FracturesPalliative CareDeathGeriatricsHospice Care
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'Til Death Do Us Part: End-of-Life Experiences of Married Couples in a Nationally Representative Survey.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Kotwal AA, Abdoler E, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Kelley AS, Ornstein KA, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Pain and Emergency Department Use in the Last Month of Life Among Older Adults With Dementia.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2018 Hunt LJ, Ritchie CS, Cataldo JK, Patel K, Stephens CE, Smith AK -
Should We Bury "The Good Death"?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Smith AK, Periyakoil VS -
Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Dementia and Palliative Care Research: High-Value Applications and Key Considerations.
Journal of palliative medicine 2017 Hunt LJ, Lee SJ, Harrison KL, Smith AK -
Association Between Persistent Pain and Memory Decline and Dementia in a Longitudinal Cohort of Elders.
JAMA internal medicine 2017 Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Glymour MM, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE, Smith AK -
Serving the Very Sick, Very Frail, and Very Old: Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Clinical Ethics.
Perspectives in biology and medicine 2017 Smith AK, Micco G -
Sense of Control in End-of-Life Decision-Making.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Romo RD, Allison TA, Smith AK, Wallhagen MI -
Low Completion and Disparities in Advance Care Planning Activities Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries.
JAMA internal medicine 2016 Harrison KL, Adrion ER, Ritchie CS, Sudore RL, Smith AK -
High Levels of Geriatric Palliative Care Needs in Hip Fracture Patients Before the Hip Fracture.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2016 Ritchie CS, Kelley AS, Stijacic Cenzer I, Smith AK, Wallhagen ML, Covinsky KE -
Self-Reported Hearing in the Last 2 Years of Life in Older Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Smith AK, Ritchie CS, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Wallhagen ML -
California's End of Life Option Act: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead.
Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Petrillo LA, Dzeng E, Smith AK -
Hearing Loss in Hospice and Palliative Care: A National Survey of Providers.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2016 Smith AK, Ritchie CS, Wallhagen ML -
Subjective, Objective, and Observed Long-term Survival: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
JAMA internal medicine 2015 Romo RD, Lee SJ, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Increase in Disability Prevalence Before Hip Fracture.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015 Smith AK, Cenzer IS, John Boscardin W, Ritchie CS, Wallhagen ML, Covinsky KE -
Pain in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia: Results from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015 Hunt LJ, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Stephens CE, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
"It Just Consumes Your Life": Quality of Life for Informal Caregivers of Diverse Older Adults With Late-Life Disability.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2015 Thai JN, Barnhart CE, Cagle J, Smith AK -
Discrimination in Healthcare Settings is Associated with Disability in Older Adults: Health and Retirement Study, 2008-2012.
Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Rogers SE, Thrasher AD, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Elder self-neglect--how can a physician help?
The New England journal of medicine 2013 Smith AK, Lo B, Aronson L -
Disability during the last two years of life.
JAMA internal medicine 2013 Smith AK, Walter LC, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE -
When previously expressed wishes conflict with best interests.
JAMA internal medicine 2013 Smith AK, Lo B, Sudore R -
Uncertainty--the other side of prognosis.
The New England journal of medicine 2013 Smith AK, White DB, Arnold RM -
Advance care planning and the quality of end-of-life care in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2013 Bischoff KE, Sudore R, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Every patient is an individual: clinicians balance individual factors when discussing prognosis with diverse frail elderly adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2013 Thai JN, Walter LC, Eng C, Smith AK -
Use of the Medicare posthospitalization skilled nursing benefit in the last 6 months of life.
Archives of internal medicine 2012 Aragon K, Covinsky K, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Flint L, Smith AK -
The problem with actually tattooing DNR across your chest.
Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Smith AK, Lo B -
Half of older Americans seen in emergency department in last month of life; most admitted to hospital, and many die there.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Smith AK, McCarthy E, Weber E, Cenzer IS, Boscardin J, Fisher J, Covinsky K -
Prognostic indices for older adults: a systematic review.
JAMA 2012 Yourman LC, Lee SJ, Schonberg MA, Widera EW, Smith AK -
Discussing overall prognosis with the very elderly.
The New England journal of medicine 2011 Smith AK, Williams BA, Lo B -
Conducting high-value secondary dataset analysis: an introductory guide and resources.
Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Smith AK, Ayanian JZ, Covinsky KE, Landon BE, McCarthy EP, Wee CC, Steinman MA -
The epidemiology of pain during the last 2 years of life.
Annals of internal medicine 2010 Smith AK, Cenzer IS, Knight SJ, Puntillo KA, Widera E, Williams BA, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE -
Length of stay for older adults residing in nursing homes at the end of life.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010 Kelly A, Conell-Price J, Covinsky K, Cenzer IS, Chang A, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Emergency department experiences of acutely symptomatic patients with terminal illness and their family caregivers.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2010 Smith AK, Schonberg MA, Fisher J, Pallin DJ, Block SD, Forrow L, McCarthy EP -
Outpatient palliative care practices.
Archives of internal medicine 2010 Rabow MW, Smith AK, Braun JL, Weissman DE -
The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life.
Lancet (London, England) 2009 Micco G, Villars P, Smith AK -
Crying: experiences and attitudes of third-year medical students and interns.
Teaching and learning in medicine 2009 Sung AD, Collins ME, Smith AK, Sanders AM, Quinn MA, Block SD, Arnold RM -
Racial and ethnic differences in end-of-life care in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with advanced cancer.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008 Smith AK, Earle CC, McCarthy EP -
Am I doing the right thing? Provider perspectives on improving palliative care in the emergency department.
Annals of emergency medicine 2008 Smith AK, Fisher J, Schonberg MA, Pallin DJ, Block SD, Forrow L, Phillips RS, McCarthy EP -
Racial and ethnic differences in advance care planning among patients with cancer: impact of terminal illness acknowledgment, religiousness, and treatment preferences.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2008 Smith AK, McCarthy EP, Paulk E, Balboni TA, Maciejewski PK, Block SD, Prigerson HG -
On being fired: experiences of patient-initiated termination of the patient-physician relationship in palliative medicine.
Journal of palliative medicine 2007 Smith AK, Buss MK, Giansiracusa DF, Block SD -
Resident approaches to advance care planning on the day of hospital admission.
Archives of internal medicine 2006 Smith AK, Ries AP, Zhang B, Tulsky JA, Prigerson HG, Block SD
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"Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing": Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Adaptation to Changing Social Lives Among Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners.
The Gerontologist 2024 Kotwal AA, Allison TA, Halim M, Garrett SB, Perissinotto CM, Ritchie CS, Smith AK, Harrison KL -
REGAINing the Freedom to Choose Insensibility for Hip Fracture Surgery.
Anesthesiology 2024 Whitlock EL, Smith AK -
The National Prevalence of Supplemental Oxygen Use in Persons with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Comparison of Claims-based and Self-reported Supplemental Oxygen Use.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Suen AO, Cenzer I, Iyer AS, Witt LJ, Smith AK, Kotwal A -
A Tale of 2 Palliative Care Trials: Developing Sustainable and Transferable Models.
JAMA 2024 Kotwal AA, Hunt LJ, Smith AK -
Long-term cognitive outcome after elective hip or knee total joint arthroplasty: A population-based observational study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Tang AB, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Ward D, Glymour MM, Whitlock EL -
Measuring Implicit Bias in ICU Notes Using Word-Embedding Neural Network Models.
Chest 2024 Cobert J, Mills H, Lee A, Gologorskaya O, Espejo E, Jeon SY, Boscardin J, Heintz TA, Kennedy C, Ashana D, Chapman AC, Raghunathan K, Smith AK, Lee S -
Chronic Pain and Pain Management in Older Adults: Protocol and Pilot Results.
Nursing research 2024 LaRowe LR, Miaskowski C, Miller A, Mayfield A, Keefe FJ, Smith AK, Cooper BA, Wei LJ, Ritchie CS -
Development and External Validation of Models to Predict Need for Nursing Home Level of Care in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia.
JAMA internal medicine 2024 Deardorff WJ, Jeon SY, Barnes DE, Boscardin WJ, Langa KM, Covinsky KE, Mitchell SL, Lee SJ, Smith AK -
Music engagement as part of everyday life in dementia caregiving relationships at home.
The Gerontologist 2023 Allison TA, Gubner JM, Harrison KL, Smith AK, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Johnson JK -
The Natural History of Disability and Caregiving Before and After Long-Term Care Entry.
JAMA internal medicine 2023 Lam K, Cenzer I, Levy CR, Matlock DD, Smith AK, Covinsky KE -
Around the EQUATOR with Clin-STAR: Prediction modeling opportunities and challenges in aging research.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Deardorff WJ, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ -
The Maelstrom of Medications-Optimization of Prescribing During the Course of Dementia.
JAMA internal medicine 2023 Growdon ME, Smith AK -
Negativity and Positivity in the ICU: Exploratory Development of Automated Sentiment Capture in the Electronic Health Record.
Critical care explorations 2023 Kennedy CJ, Chiu C, Chapman AC, Gologorskaya O, Farhan H, Han M, Hodgson M, Lazzareschi D, Ashana D, Lee S, Smith AK, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Pirracchio R, Cobert J -
Estimating population impact of state triage policies restricting healthcare access for older adults with chronic conditions.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Nguyen NV, Riggan KA, Ennis JS, Tilburt JC, Smith AK, Kramer DB, Sulmasy DP, DeMartino ES -
The Role of Digital Technologies in Facilitating Psychosocial Resilience to Sudden Social Isolation Among Older Adults: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2023 Newmark RL, Allison TA, Smith AK, Perissinotto CM, Tha SH, Kotwal AA -
Disparities in advance care planning among older US immigrants.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Mindo-Panusis D, Sudore RL, Cenzer I, Smith AK, Kotwal AA -
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on meaningful activity engagement in racially and ethnically diverse older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Oh A, Gan S, Boscardin WJ, Neilands TB, Stewart AL, Nguyen TT, Smith AK -
Improving Clinical Applicability of Mortality Prediction Models Among Persons With Dementia-Reply.
JAMA internal medicine 2023 Deardorff WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ -
Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees With Dementia.
Journal of palliative medicine 2023 Hunt LJ, Gan S, Smith AK, Aldridge MD, Boscardin WJ, Harrison KL, James JE, Lee AK, Yaffe K -
'It was a great brain, and I miss it': lay perspectives on postoperative cognitive dysfunction.
British journal of anaesthesia 2023 Li L, Dohan D, Smith AK, Whitlock EL -
Factors Associated With the Place of Death in Huntington Disease: Analysis of Enroll-HD.
Journal of palliative medicine 2023 Sokol LL, Nance M, Kluger BM, Yeh C, Paulsen JS, Smith AK, Bega D -
Preoperative Factors Predict Memory Decline After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in an Epidemiological Cohort of Older Adults.
Journal of the American Heart Association 2022 Tang AB, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Whitlock EL -
Functional and clinical needs of older hospice enrollees with coexisting dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Harrison KL, Cenzer I, Smith AK, Hunt LJ, Kelley AS, Aldridge MD, Covinsky KE -
End-of-life health care use among socially isolated and cognitively impaired older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Yaffe K, Perissinotto C, Smith AK -
Development and External Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia.
JAMA internal medicine 2022 Deardorff WJ, Barnes DE, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Langa KM, Covinsky KE, Mitchell SL, Whitlock EL, Smith AK, Lee SJ -
The epidemiology of preexisting geriatric and palliative conditions in older adults with poor prognosis cancers.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Tsang M, Gan S, Boscardin WJ, Wong ML, Walter LC, Smith AK -
Change is coming: Efforts to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Rhodes RL, Saliba D, Brangman SA, Lundebjerg NE, Ouslander JG, Smith AK -
Change in four measures of physical function among older adults during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study.
Journal of geriatric oncology 2022 Singhal S, Walter LC, Smith AK, Loh KP, Cohen HJ, Zeng S, Shi Y, Boscardin WJ, Presley CJ, Williams GR, Magnuson A, Mohile SG, Wong ML -
A comprehensive prognostic tool for older adults: Predicting death, ADL disability, and walking disability simultaneously.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Lee AK, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ -
Pain, Analgesic Use, and Patient Satisfaction With Spinal Versus General Anesthesia for Hip Fracture Surgery : A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Annals of internal medicine 2022 Neuman MD, Feng R, Ellenberg SS, Sieber F, Sessler DI, Magaziner J, Elkassabany N, Schwenk ES, Dillane D, Marcantonio ER, Menio D, Ayad S, Hassan M, Stone T, Papp S, Donegan D, Marshall M, Jaffe JD, … -
A national study of disenrollment from hospice among people with dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Hunt LJ, Gan S, Boscardin WJ, Yaffe K, Ritchie CS, Aldridge MD, Smith AK -
Older refugees are struggling.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Clarfield AM, Smith AK, Ouslander JG -
Life expectancy for community-dwelling persons with dementia and severe disability.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Harrison KL, Ritchie CS, Hunt LJ, Patel K, Boscardin WJ, Yaffe K, Smith AK -
Should we still believe in advance care planning?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Smith AK -
Strategies for discussing long-term prognosis when deciding on cancer screening for adults over age 75.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Jindal SK, Karamourtopoulos M, Jacobson AR, Pinheiro A, Smith AK, Hamel MB, Schonberg MA -
Long-term functional outcomes and mortality after hospitalization for extracranial hemorrhage.
Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Covinsky KE, Fang MC, Shah SJ -
A single question assessment of loneliness in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationally-representative study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Waite LJ, Smith AK, Perissinotto CM, Hawkley LC -
Incidence of potentially disruptive medical and social events in older adults with and without dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Hunt LJ, Morrison RS, Gan S, Espejo E, Ornstein KA, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
"You have to be sure that the patient has the full picture": Adaptation of the Best Case/Worst Case communication tool for geriatric oncology.
Journal of geriatric oncology 2022 Wong ML, Nicosia FM, Smith AK, Walter LC, Lam V, Cohen HJ, Loh KP, Mohile SG, Ursem CJ, Schwarze ML -
Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults Admitted to US ICUs Between 1998 and 2015.
Chest 2022 Cobert J, Jeon SY, Boscardin J, Chapman AC, Ferrante LE, Lee S, Smith AK -
"I Didn't Sign Up for This": Perspectives from Persons Living with Dementia and Care Partners on Challenges, Supports, and Opportunities to Add Geriatric Neuropalliative Care to Dementia Specialty Care.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Harrison KL, Garrett SB, Halim M, Bernstein Sideman A, Allison TA, Dohan D, Naasan G, Miller BL, Smith AK, Ritchie CS -
Use of High-risk Medications Among Lonely Older Adults: Results From a Nationally Representative Sample.
JAMA internal medicine 2021 Kotwal AA, Steinman MA, Cenzer I, Smith AK -
Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Wong ML, Shi Y, Smith AK, Miaskowski C, Boscardin WJ, Cohen HJ, Lam V, Mazor M, Metzger L, Presley CJ, Williams GR, Loh KP, Ursem CJ, Friedlander TW, Blakely CM, Gubens MA, Allen G, Shumay D, Walter … -
A peer intervention reduces loneliness and improves social well-being in low-income older adults: A mixed-methods study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Kotwal AA, Fuller SM, Myers JJ, Hill D, Tha SH, Smith AK, M Perissinotto C -
Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021 Allison TA, Gubner JM, Oh A, Harrison KL, Pham K, Barnes DE, Johnson JK, Covinsky KE, Smith AK -
The epidemiology of social isolation and loneliness among older adults during the last years of life.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Waite LJ, Covinsky KE, Perissinotto CM, Boscardin WJ, Hawkley LC, Dale W, Smith AK -
Virtual Interinstitutional Palliative Care Consultation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City.
Journal of palliative medicine 2021 Asprec L, Blinderman CD, Berlin A, Callahan ME, Widera E, Periyakoil VS, Smith AK, Nakagawa S -
Association of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting vs Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Memory Decline in Older Adults Undergoing Coronary Revascularization.
JAMA 2021 Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE, Avidan MS, Glymour MM -
Pre-estimating subsets: A new approach for unavailable predictors in prognostic modeling.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Aliberti MJR, Kotwal AA, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Banda S, Boscardin WJ -
Availability of Palliative Care in Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021 Sumarsono N, Sudore RL, Smith AK, Pantilat SZ, Anderson WG, Makam AN -
A Novel Metric for Developing Easy-to-Use and Accurate Clinical Prediction Models: The Time-cost Information Criterion.
Medical care 2021 Lee SJ, Smith AK, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Covinsky KE, Gan S, Chen CL, Boscardin WJ -
Engagement in Meaningful Activities Among Older Adults With Disability, Dementia, and Depression.
JAMA internal medicine 2021 Oh A, Gan S, Boscardin WJ, Allison TA, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Smith AK -
Individualizing Surveillance Mammography for Older Patients After Treatment for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and International Society of Geriatric Oncology Consensus Statement.
JAMA oncology 2021 Freedman RA, Minami CA, Winer EP, Morrow M, Smith AK, Walter LC, Sedrak MS, Gagnon H, Perilla-Glen A, Wildiers H, Wildes TM, Lichtman SM, Loh KP, Brain EGC, Ganschow PS, Hunt KK, Mayer DK, Ruddy KJ, … -
Patient Factors Associated With Parathyroidectomy in Older Adults With Primary Hyperparathyroidism.
JAMA surgery 2021 Seib CD, Suh I, Meng T, Trickey A, Smith AK, Finlayson E, Covinsky KE, Kurella Tamura M, Kebebew E -
Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High- and Low-Burden Settings.
Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Block BL, Martin TM, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE, Mourad M, Hu LL, Smith AK -
A Novel Method for Identifying a Parsimonious and Accurate Predictive Model for Multiple Clinical Outcomes.
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine 2021 Diaz-Ramirez LG, Lee SJ, Smith AK, Gan S, Boscardin WJ -
Long-term individual and population functional outcomes in older adults with atrial fibrillation.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Fang MC, Shah SJ -
Evaluation of Time to Benefit of Statins for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Adults Aged 50 to 75 Years: A Meta-analysis.
JAMA internal medicine 2021 Yourman LC, Cenzer IS, Boscardin WJ, Nguyen BT, Smith AK, Schonberg MA, Schoenborn NL, Widera EW, Orkaby A, Rodriguez A, Lee SJ -
A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults.
Age and ageing 2021 Aliberti MJR, Covinsky KE, Garcez FB, Smith AK, Curiati PK, Lee SJ, Dias MB, Melo VJD, Rego-Júnior OFD, Richinho VP, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ -
The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: New Leadership and New Features.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Ouslander JG, Smith AK -
Long-term individual and population functional outcomes in older adults with atrial fibrillation.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Fang MC, Shah SJ -
Long-term individual and population functional outcomes in older adults with atrial fibrillation.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Parks AL, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA, Smith AK, Fang MC, Shah SJ -
Palliative Care for Patients With Noncancer Illnesses.
JAMA 2020 Harrison KL, Kotwal AA, Smith AK -
Social Isolation and Loneliness Among San Francisco Bay Area Older Adults During the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Orders.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Kotwal AA, Holt-Lunstad J, Newmark RL, Cenzer I, Smith AK, Covinsky KE, Escueta DP, Lee JM, Perissinotto CM -
Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness.
The New England journal of medicine 2020 Widera E, Anderson WG, Santhosh L, McKee KY, Smith AK, Frank J -
A Strategy to Prepare Primary Care Clinicians for Discussing Stopping Cancer Screening With Adults Older Than 75 Years.
Innovation in aging 2020 Schonberg MA, Karamourtopoulos M, Jacobson AR, Aliberti GM, Pinheiro A, Smith AK, Davis RB, Schuttner LC, Hamel MB -
Pandemic Palliative Care Consultations Spanning State and Institutional Borders.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Nakagawa S, Berlin A, Widera E, Periyakoil VS, Smith AK, Blinderman CD -
During COVID-19, Outpatient Advance Care Planning Is Imperative: We Need All Hands on Deck.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Block BL, Smith AK, Sudore RL -
Transforming Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Dementia through Music and Filmmaking.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Gubner J, Smith AK, Allison TA -
Integration of an Objective Cognitive Assessment Into a Prognostic Index for 5-Year Mortality Prediction.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Kotwal AA, Lee SJ, Dale W, Boscardin WJ, Waite LJ, Smith AK -
Patterns and Trends in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults Who Received Intensive Care at the End of Life.
JAMA internal medicine 2020 Block BL, Jeon SY, Sudore RL, Matthay MA, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK -
Scripts and Strategies for Discussing Stopping Cancer Screening with Adults > 75 Years: a Qualitative Study.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Schonberg MA, Jacobson AR, Karamourtopoulos M, Aliberti GM, Pinheiro A, Smith AK, Schuttner LC, Park ER, Hamel MB -
Palliative Care in the Nursing Home-Shifting Paradigms.
JAMA internal medicine 2020 Hunt LJ, Stephens CE, Smith AK -
"Now I Write Songs": Growth and Reciprocity After Long-Term Nursing Home Placement.
The Gerontologist 2020 Allison TA, Smith AK -
Key Ingredients of an Ideal System for High-Quality Community Care for Persons With Dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Oh A, Smith AK, Allison TA -
Who Becomes a High Utilizer? A Case-Control Study of Older Adults in the USA.
Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Smith GM, Cenzer IS, Covinsky K, Reuben DB, Smith AK -
Social Support and Patterns of Institutionalization Among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Oh A, Patel K, Boscardin WJ, Max W, Stephens C, Ritchie CS, Smith AK -
10-Minute Targeted Geriatric Assessment Predicts Disability and Hospitalization in Fast-Paced Acute Care Settings.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019 Aliberti MJR, Covinsky KE, Apolinario D, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Fortes-Filho SQ, Melo JA, Souza NPS, Avelino-Silva TJ, Jacob-Filho W -
Rehabbed to Death: Breaking the Cycle.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Flint LA, David D, Lynn J, Smith AK -
Care Settings and Clinical Characteristics of Older Adults with Moderately Severe Dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Harrison KL, Ritchie CS, Patel K, Hunt LJ, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Smith AK -
Ethical Challenges in Caring for Unrepresented Adults: A Qualitative Study of Key Stakeholders.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Verma A, Smith AK, Harrison KL, Chodos AH -
Who Will Care for the Caregivers? Increased Needs When Caring for Frail Older Adults With Cancer.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Huang LW, Smith AK, Wong ML -
Making and Measuring an Impact in a Digital World: The Role of Social Media and the Medical Journal.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Widera E, Trucil DE, Smith AK -
A Case for n-of-1 Trials.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Smith AK -
Active Medical Management for Patients With Advanced Kidney Disease.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Ladin K, Smith AK -
Rehabbed to Death.
The New England journal of medicine 2019 Flint LA, David DJ, Smith AK -
Models and Studies of Aging: Executive Summary of a Report from the U13 Conference Series.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Hurria A, Carpenter CR, McFarland F, Lundebjerg NE, de Cabo R, Ferrucci L, Studenski SA, Barzilai N, Briggs JP, Ix JH, Kitzman DW, Kuchel GA, Musi N, Newman JC, Rando TA, Smith AK, Walston JD, … -
Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2019 Wallhagen MI, Ritchie CS, Smith AK -
Cognitive Change After Cardiac Surgery Versus Cardiac Catheterization: A Population-Based Study.
The Annals of thoracic surgery 2018 Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Avidan MS, Glymour MM -
High Symptom Burden in Older Adults: A Clarion Call for Geriatrics and Palliative Care Research and Training.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Hunt LJ, Smith AK -
Assessing Risk for Adverse Outcomes in Older Adults: The Need to Include Both Physical Frailty and Cognition.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Aliberti MJR, Cenzer IS, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Yaffe K, Covinsky KE -
"Planting the Seed": Perceived Benefits of and Strategies for Discussing Long-Term Prognosis with Older Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Moré JM, Lang-Brown S, Romo RD, Lee SJ, Sudore R, Smith AK -
Relationship Between Expectation of Death and Location of Death Varies by Race/Ethnicity.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2018 Romo RD, Cenzer IS, Williams BA, Smith AK -
Serving the Very Sick, Very Frail, and Very Old: Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Clinical Ethics
Perspective in Biology and Medicine 2017 Smith AK Micco GM -
Prognosis Communication in Late-Life Disability: A Mixed Methods Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017 Wong TW, Lang-Brown S, Romo RD, Au-Yeung A, Lee SJ, Moran PJ, Karlawish J, Sudore R, Clayton J, Smith AK -
Survival, Functional Status, and Eating Ability After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement for Acute Stroke.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017 Meisel K, Arnold RM, Stijacic Cenzer I, Boscardin J, Smith AK -
Difficulty Managing Medications and Finances in Older Adults: A 10-year Cohort Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017 Bleijenberg N, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Cenzer IS, Boscardin JW, Covinsky KE -
Prevalence and Outcomes of Breathlessness in Older Adults: A National Population Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Smith AK, Currow DC, Abernethy AP, Johnson MJ, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Ritchie CS -
One-Year Mortality After Hip Fracture: Development and Validation of a Prognostic Index.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Cenzer IS, Tang V, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Ritchie C, Wallhagen MI, Espaldon R, Covinsky KE -
"If You Don't Know, All of a Sudden, They're Gone": Caregiver Perspectives About Prognostic Communication for Disabled Elderly Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Cagle JG, McClymont KM, Thai JN, Smith AK -
How U.S. Doctors Die: A Cohort Study of Healthcare Use at the End of Life.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Matlock DD, Yamashita TE, Min SJ, Smith AK, Kelley AS, M Fischer S -
Discussing Long-term Prognosis in Primary Care: Hard but Necessary.
JAMA internal medicine 2016 Schonberg MA, Smith AK -
Dealing with Racist Patients.
The New England journal of medicine 2016 Paul-Emile K, Smith AK, Lo B, Fernández A -
"Everyone else gets ice cream here more often than I do--It burns me up"--Perspectives on Diabetes Care from Nursing Home Residents and their Doctors.
BMC geriatrics 2016 Barnhart C, McClymont K, Smith AK, Au-Yeung A, Lee SJ -
Tools to Promote Shared Decision Making in Serious Illness: A Systematic Review.
JAMA internal medicine 2015 Austin CA, Mohottige D, Sudore RL, Smith AK, Hanson LC -
Hearing loss in palliative care.
Journal of palliative medicine 2015 Smith AK, Jain N, Wallhagen ML -
Viewing Hospice Decision Making as a Process.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2015 Romo RD, Wallhagen MI, Smith AK -
Pain behind bars: the epidemiology of pain in older jail inmates in a county jail.
Journal of palliative medicine 2014 Williams BA, Ahalt C, Stijacic-Cenzer I, Smith AK, Goldenson J, Ritchie CS -
Usefulness and effect of online prognostic calculators.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 McClymont KM, Lee SJ, Schonberg MA, Widera E, Miao Y, Smith AK -
Leveraging the health and retirement study to advance palliative care research.
Journal of palliative medicine 2014 Kelley AS, Langa KM, Smith AK, Cagle J, Ornstein K, Silveira MJ, Nicholas L, Covinsky KE, Ritchie CS -
Opening it up for more questions: racial disparities in hospice use.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2013 Lakin JR, Smith AK -
The diverse landscape of palliative care clinics.
Journal of palliative medicine 2013 Smith AK, Thai JN, Bakitas MA, Meier DE, Spragens LH, Temel JS, Weissman DE, Rabow MW -
Palliative care: an approach for all internists: comment on "Early palliative care in advanced lung cancer: a qualitative study".
JAMA internal medicine 2013 Smith AK -
Perceptions of successful aging among diverse elders with late-life disability.
The Gerontologist 2012 Romo RD, Wallhagen MI, Yourman L, Yeung CC, Eng C, Micco G, Pérez-Stable EJ, Smith AK -
Quality of life in late-life disability: "I don't feel bitter because I am in a wheelchair".
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012 King J, Yourman L, Ahalt C, Eng C, Knight SJ, Pérez-Stable EJ, Smith AK -
"Knowing is better": preferences of diverse older adults for discussing prognosis.
Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Ahalt C, Walter LC, Yourman L, Eng C, Pérez-Stable EJ, Smith AK -
"Her husband doesn't speak much English": conducting a family meeting with an interpreter.
Journal of palliative medicine 2011 Schenker Y, Smith AK, Arnold RM, Fernandez A -
African Americans and end-of-life care #204.
Journal of palliative medicine 2010 Raghavan M, Smith AK, Arnold RM -
Update in palliative medicine.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2010 Fromme EK, Smith AK, Hughes MT, Brokaw FC, Rosenfeld KE, Arnold RM -
Palliative care for Latino patients and their families: whenever we prayed, she wept.
JAMA 2009 Smith AK, Sudore RL, Pérez-Stable EJ -
Racial/ethnic disparities in liver transplant surgery and hospice use: parallels, differences, and unanswered questions.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2008 Smith AK, Ladner D, McCarthy EP -
Differences in the quality of the patient-physician relationship among terminally ill African-American and white patients: impact on advance care planning and treatment preferences.
Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Smith AK, Davis RB, Krakauer EL -
CT and MRI of retroperitoneal edema associated with large uterine leiomyomas.
Journal of computer assisted tomography 2002 Smith AK, Coakley FV, Jackson R, Gordon RL -
Formation of transient complexes in the glutamate dehydrogenase catalyzed reaction.
Biochemistry 1975 Sanner T -
Coronary vascular and myocardial responses to carotid body stimulation in the dog.
The American journal of physiology 1975 Ehrhart IC, Parker PE, Weidner WJ, Dabney JM, Scott JB, Haddy FJ