Anna Chodos, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Her academic work is focused on understanding the unmet needs of older adults who are seen in primary care in the safety net, especially those who who are living with dementia.

She is the Principal Investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a state-wide program to improve detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. She is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program, which is training health care providers and social service providers in geriatrics principles. Clinically, she is Director of Whole Person Geriatrics for the San Francisco Health Network, with the task of improving ambulatory care medical for older adults, and the director of two clinics: the outpatient Geriatrics Consult Service and the Geriatrics-Neurology Cognitive Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The Geriatrics-Neurology Cognitive Clinic is an interprofessional assessment and treatment clinic for adults with cognitive disorders.

Dr. Chodos attended medical and public health school at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed an Internal Medicine Primary Care residency at UCSF-Zuckerberg San Francisco General and a Geriatrics clinical and research fellowship at UCSF. She is board certified in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine.

• Lessons from Detecting Cognitive Impairment Including Dementia (DetectCID) in Primary Care.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Bernstein Sideman A, Chalmer R, Ayers E, Gershon R, Verghese J, Wolf M, Ansari A, Arvanitis M, Bui N, Chen P, Chodos A, Corriveau R, Curtis L, Ehrlich AR, Tomaszewski Farias SE, Goode C, Hill-Sakurai …
• The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lived Experience of Diverse Older Adults Living Alone With Cognitive Impairment.
  The Gerontologist 2021 Portacolone E, Chodos A, Halpern J, Covinsky KE, Keiser S, Fung J, Rivera E, Tran T, Bykhovsky C, Johnson JK
• Use of Services by People Living Alone With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review.
  Innovation in aging 2021 Rosenwohl-Mack A, Dubbin L, Chodos A, Dulaney S, Fang ML, Merrilees J, Portacolone E
• New opportunities at the next-generation neutrino experiments I: BSM neutrino physics and dark matter.
  Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain) 2020 Argüelles CA, Aurisano AJ, Batell B, Berger J, Bishai M, Boschi T, Byrnes N, Chatterjee A, Chodos A, Coan T, Cui Y, de Gouvêa A, Denton PB, De Roeck A, Flanagan W, Forero DV, Gandrajula RP, …
• COVID-19-Associated Deaths in San Francisco: the Important Role of Dementia and Atypical Presentations in Long-term Care Facilities.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Louie JK, Scott HM, Lu W, Chodos A, DuBois A, Sturtz N, Stoltey J
• Subjective cognitive decline and elder mistreatment in Mexican community-dwelling older adults.
  Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2020 Piña-Escudero SD, Chodos A, Weinstein CA, Allen IE, Ávila-Funes JA, Ritchie C
• Can the Safety Net be Age-Friendly? How to Address Its Important Role in Caring for Older Adults with Geriatric Conditions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Chodos AH, Cassel CK, Ritchie CS
• In-Home Technology Training Among Socially Isolated Older Adults: Findings From the Tech Allies Program.
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2020 Fields J, Cemballi AG, Michalec C, Uchida D, Griffiths K, Cardes H, Cuellar J, Chodos AH, Lyles CR
• Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Possin KL, Merrilees JJ, Dulaney S, Bonasera SJ, Chiong W, Lee K, Hooper SM, Allen IE, Braley T, Bernstein A, Rosa TD, Harrison K, Begert-Hellings H, Kornak J, Kahn JG, Naasan G, Lanata S, Clark AM, …
• Caring for Unbefriended Older Adults and Adult Orphans: A Clinician Survey.
  Clinical gerontologist 2019 Farrell TW, Catlin C, Chodos AH, Naik AD, Widera E, Moye J
• 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
• Innovation in care for individuals with cognitive impairment: Can reimbursement policy spread best practices?
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017 Borson S, Chodosh J, Cordell C, Kallmyer B, Boustani M, Chodos A, Dave JK, Gwyther L, Reed S, Reuben DB, Stabile S, Willis-Parker M, Thies W
• Development of an adaptive, personalized, and scalable dementia care program: Early findings from the Care Ecosystem.
  PLoS medicine 2017 Possin KL, Merrilees J, Bonasera SJ, Bernstein A, Chiong W, Lee K, Wilson L, Hooper SM, Dulaney S, Braley T, Laohavanich S, Feuer JE, Clark AM, Schaffer MW, Schenk AK, Heunis J, Ong P, Cook KM, Bowhay…
• Hospitalization-Associated Disability in Adults Admitted to a Safety-Net Hospital.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Chodos AH, Kushel MB, Greysen SR, Guzman D, Kessell ER, Sarkar U, Goldman LE, Critchfield JM, Pierluissi E
• Journalists, district attorneys and researchers: why IRBs should get in the middle.
  BMC medical ethics 2015 Chodos AH, Lee SJ
• Older jail inmates and community acute care use.
  American journal of public health 2014 Chodos AH, Ahalt C, Cenzer IS, Myers J, Goldenson J, Williams BA
• Effect of board certification on antihypertensive treatment intensification in patients with diabetes mellitus.
  Circulation 2008 Turchin A, Shubina M, Chodos AH, Einbinder JS, Pendergrass ML
• CD4+CD25+ cells controlling a pathogenic CD4 response inhibit cytokine differentiation, CXCR-3 expression, and tissue invasion.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2004 Sarween N, Chodos A, Raykundalia C, Khan M, Abbas AK, Walker LS
• Cooperative roles of CTLA-4 and regulatory T cells in tolerance to an islet cell antigen.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2004 Eggena MP, Walker LS, Nagabhushanam V, Barron L, Chodos A, Abbas AK
• Antigen-dependent proliferation of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells in vivo.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2003 Walker LS, Chodos A, Eggena M, Dooms H, Abbas AK
• Functional tolerance is maintained despite proliferation of CD4 T cells after encounter with tissue-derived antigen.
  Developmental immunology 2002 Ausubel LJ, Chodos A, Bekarian N, Abbas AK, Walker LS