Lynn Flint, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Lynn Flint is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatrics. She is a board-certified internist and hospice and palliative medicine physician and a medical educator.
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Clinical Work Dr. Flint is an attending physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She provides outpatient palliative care consultation and nursing home care for older adults with complex chronic illness and functional and cognitive impairment. She serves as the medical director for the SFVA outpatient palliative care clinic.
Education Work Dr. Flint is the founding director of the UCSF Integrated Geriatrics and Palliative Care ("Geripal") Fellowship program, the first of its kind on the west coast. This innovative fellowship trains physicians to become leaders in the care of older adults with serious illness through clinical care, research, education, quality improvement and program development. Dr. Flint is a co-creator of the UCSF Fellows Leadership Cohort, a successful program introducing medical sub-specialty fellows to foundational leadership concepts. She is also a co-leader of a unique, longitudinal leadership development program for all the Geripal fellows in the country. She was inducted into the Debra T. Hallas Academy of Medical Educators in 2021.
Training Dr. Flint graduated from Yale University in 1998 with a B.A. in Psychology. She graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 2004, and she completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007. She completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System in 2007. After joining the Division of Geriatrics, Dr. Flint sought additional training in medical education. She was selected to participate in the Teaching Scholars Program, which she completed in 2016. She completed the Association of American Medical College's Leadership and Development program in 2018. Dr. Flint also completed training to become a Vitaltalk Faciliator in 2019. Vitaltalk is a nationally-recognized course in serious illness communication. She continues to seek training in medical education leadership and is currently participating the in the Teach for UCSF Certificate in Teaching for Inclusion and Equity.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Fellowship Hospice and Palliative Medicine Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System 2008
- Residency Internal Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital 2007
- MD New York University School of Medicine 2004
- B.A. Psychology Yale University 1998
Interests
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- Hospice
- Palliative Care
- Medical Education
- Serious Illness Communication
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
Websites
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- UCSF Integrated Geriatrics and Palliative Care Fellowship (geriatrics.ucsf.edu)
Publications (9)
Top publication keywords:
FamilyPhysician-Patient RelationsSubacute CarePneumonia, ViralNursing HomesVideoconferencingMedicaidProfessional-Family RelationsTransitional CarePatient TransferHome Care ServicesLong-Term CarePatient IsolationTelephoneMedicare
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Make the Call: Engaging Family as a Critical Intervention.
Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Rohlfing AB, Kelly AE, Flint LA -
Assessing Technical Feasibility and Acceptability of Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes.
Palliative medicine reports 2022 Stephens CE, Allison TA, Flint LA, David D, Wertz V, Halifax E, Barrientos P, Ritchie CS -
"Captive by the Uncertainty"-Experiences with Anticipatory Guidance for People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers at a Specialty Dementia Clinic.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Shafir A, Ritchie CS, Garrett SB, Bernstein Sideman A, Naasan G, Merrilees J, Widera E, Flint L, Harrison KL -
A single center evaluation of applicant experiences in virtual interviews across eight internal medicine subspecialty fellowship programs.
Medical education online 2021 Huppert LA, Hsu G, Elnachef N, Flint L, Frank JA, Gensler LS, Hsiao EC, Khanna RR, Qasim A, Schwartz BS, Widera E, Zapata C, Babik JM -
The New Normal: Key Considerations for Effective Serious Illness Communication Over Video or Telephone During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Flint L, Kotwal A
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Rehabbed to Death: Breaking the Cycle.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Flint LA, David D, Lynn J, Smith AK -
Rehabbed to Death.
The New England journal of medicine 2019 Flint LA, David DJ, Smith AK -
Update in hospital palliative care.
Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Anderson WG, Flint LA, Horton JR, Johnson K, Mourad M, Sharpe BA -
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