Matthew Growdon, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Growdon received his medical school training at Harvard Medical School and his MPH with an emphasis on quantitative methods from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He subsequently completed a clinical geriatrics fellowship in the Harvard Medical School Multicampus Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, a chief residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Advanced Training in Clinical Research Certificate Program at UCSF. Currently, his research is primarily supported by a NIA GEMSSTAR R03 grant and a NIH/AHRQ Learning Health Systems K12 training grant (July 2022-June 2024), through which he is investigating opportunities for medication optimization/deprescribing for older adults receiving primary care at UCSF Health.

Dr. Growdon's clinical work is based at UCSF Parnassus, where he attends on the inpatient Geriatrics Consult/Co-Management and Acute Care for Elder Services. He is passionate about improving the quality of care for older adults and currently serves as the Geriatrics Consultant/QI Lead for the Age-Friendly Emergency Department Initiative at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

• eConsultation for Deprescribing Among Older Adults: Clinician Perspectives on Implementation Barriers and Facilitators.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Growdon ME, Hunt LJ, Miller MJ, Halim M, Karliner LS, Gonzales R, Sudore RL, Steinman MA, Harrison KL
• Cognitive, physical, and sensory deficits that can affect everyday medication use among older adults: A national view.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Tang B, Espejo E, Steinman MA, Growdon ME
• Which older adults are at highest risk of prescribing cascades? A national study of the gabapentinoid-loop diuretic cascade.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Growdon ME, Jing B, Morris EJ, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin WJ, Byers AL, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• The Maelstrom of Medications-Optimization of Prescribing During the Course of Dementia.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Growdon ME, Smith AK
• Secular Trends in Central Nervous System-Active Polypharmacy Among Serial Cross-Sections of US Adults, 2009-2020.
  Drugs & aging 2023 Terman SW, Niznik JD, Growdon ME, Gerlach LB, Burke JF
• One Step at a Time: Improving Gait Speed Measurement in a Geriatric Medicine Clinic.
  Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023 James K, Growdon ME, Orkaby AR, Schwartz AW
• Medication misuse and overuse in community-dwelling persons with dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Yaffe K, Boscardin WJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• New psychotropic medication use among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia after hospital discharge.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Growdon ME, Gan S, Yaffe K, Lee AK, Anderson TS, Muench U, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA
• Attitudes toward deprescribing among older adults with dementia in the United States.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Growdon ME, Espejo E, Jing B, Boscardin WJ, Zullo AR, Yaffe K, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• Polypharmacy among older adults with dementia compared with those without dementia in the United States.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Growdon ME, Gan S, Yaffe K, Steinman MA
• Potential Medicare Savings From Generic Substitution and Therapeutic Interchange of ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin-II-Receptor Blockers.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Growdon ME, Sacks CA, Kesselheim AS, Avorn J
• Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center.
  Circulation. Heart failure 2019 Eberly LA, Richterman A, Beckett AG, Wispelwey B, Marsh RH, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Chang CY, Glynn RJ, Brooks KC, Boxer R, Kakoza R, Goldsmith J, Loscalzo J, Morse M, Lewis EF, Abel S, Adams A, Anaya…
• Minimizing Sleep Disruption for Hospitalized Patients: A Wake-up Call.
  JAMA internal medicine 2018 Growdon ME, Inouye SK
• Improving Care for Ground-Level Falls in Assisted Living.
  Annals of internal medicine 2017 Growdon ME, Inouye SK
• Emotion detection deficits and changes in personality traits linked to loss of white matter integrity in primary progressive aphasia.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2017 Multani N, Galantucci S, Wilson SM, Shany-Ur T, Poorzand P, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Tartaglia MC
• The Tension Between Promoting Mobility and Preventing Falls in the Hospital.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Growdon ME, Shorr RI, Inouye SK
• The interface between delirium and dementia in elderly adults.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2015 Fong TG, Davis D, Growdon ME, Albuquerque A, Inouye SK
• Odor identification and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in clinically normal elderly.
  Neurology 2015 Growdon ME, Schultz AP, Dagley AS, Amariglio RE, Hedden T, Rentz DM, Johnson KA, Sperling RA, Albers MW, Marshall GA
• Ethical issues in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2011 Growdon ME
• Amyloid vs FDG-PET in the differential diagnosis of AD and FTLD.
  Neurology 2011 Rabinovici GD, Rosen HJ, Alkalay A, Kornak J, Furst AJ, Agarwal N, Mormino EC, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Karydas A, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Huang EJ, Dearmond SJ, Trojanowski JQ, Grinberg LT, Gorno-Tempini ML…
• Comprehension of insincere communication in neurodegenerative disease: lies, sarcasm, and theory of mind.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2011 Shany-Ur T, Poorzand P, Grossman SN, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Ketelle RS, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration.
  Annals of neurology 2011 Lee SE, Rabinovici GD, Mayo MC, Wilson SM, Seeley WW, DeArmond SJ, Huang EJ, Trojanowski JQ, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Sidhu M, See TM, Karydas AM, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, Weiner MW, Geschwind MD, …
• Distinct clinical and metabolic deficits in PCA and AD are not related to amyloid distribution.
  Neurology 2011 Rosenbloom MH, Alkalay A, Agarwal N, Baker SL, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Yen IV, Growdon M, Jang J, Madison C, Mormino EC, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Weiner MW, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD
• Neuropsychological correlates of dominance, warmth, and extraversion in neurodegenerative disease.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2011 Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Ketelle R, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Neuhaus J, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Interpersonal traits change as a function of disease type and severity in degenerative brain diseases.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2010 Sollberger M, Neuhaus J, Ketelle R, Stanley CM, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Neural correlates of syntactic processing in the nonfluent variant of primary progressive aphasia.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Wilson SM, Dronkers NF, Ogar JM, Jang J, Growdon ME, Agosta F, Henry ML, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML
• Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2010 Zhou J, Greicius MD, Gennatas ED, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Rabinovici GD, Kramer JH, Weiner M, Miller BL, Seeley WW
• Conflict monitoring in early frontotemporal dementia.
  Neurology 2009 Krueger CE, Bird AC, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Miller BL, Kramer JH
• Neural basis of interpersonal traits in neurodegenerative diseases.
  Neuropsychologia 2009 Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Wilson SM, Gyurak A, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Weiner MW, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Automated MRI-based classification of primary progressive aphasia variants.
  NeuroImage 2009 Wilson SM, Ogar JM, Laluz V, Growdon M, Jang J, Glenn S, Miller BL, Weiner MW, Gorno-Tempini ML
• 'The quicksand of forgetfulness': semantic dementia in One hundred years of solitude.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2009 Rascovsky K, Growdon ME, Pardo IR, Grossman S, Miller BL