James Deardorff, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

As a researcher, he has published high-impact articles in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He currently holds an NIH-funded K76 Beeson award to develop multi-outcome prognostic models and enhance communication of prognosis for older adults admitted to skilled nursing facilities for post-acute care. He is a Research Scholar at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living skilled nursing facility, where he oversees research projects related to post-acute and long-term care. As a clinician, he cares for patients receiving short-term rehabilitation at a skilled nursing facility and in the hospital on the geriatrics-orthopedic surgery co-management service and geriatrics consult service.

• The Palliative Care Paradox: Investigating Unexpected Outcomes in Dementia Care.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2026 Deardorff WJ, Kotwal A
• Can I Stay, or Must I Go Now? A Cohort Study of Discharge Appeals in a Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility.
  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2026 Deardorff WJ, Tominaga G, Harrison JD, Weerahandi H, Miller MJ, Yukawa M, Lam K
• Development of a Mortality Prediction Model for Incarcerated Adults to Identify Palliative Care Needs.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2025 Deardorff WJ, Lee AK, Lu K, Jing B, Boscardin WJ, DiTomas M, Dunlap J, Williams BA, Lee SJ, Smith AK
• Decision-Making and Downstream Outcomes of the Gabapentinoid-Diuretic Prescribing Cascade.
  JAMA network open 2025 Growdon ME, Tjota N, Campbell R, Gayda P, Jing B, Deardorff WJ, McCarthy LM, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• Six-Month Prognostic Tool for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025 Harrison KL, Jeon SY, Deardorff WJ, Lee AK, Hunt LJ, Ankuda C, Aldridge MD, Covinsky KE, Cenzer I, Boscardin WJ, Lee SJ, Smith AK
• Loop diuretics and subsequent use of urinary symptom medications in older adults: evaluation of a possible prescribing cascade.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2025 Growdon ME, Jing B, Deardorff WJ, Morris EJ, Boscardin WJ, Blank LJ, Bongiovanni T, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• Physician- and Large Language Model-Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries.
  JAMA internal medicine 2025 Williams CYK, Subramanian CR, Ali SS, Apolinario M, Askin E, Barish P, Cheng M, Deardorff WJ, Donthi N, Ganeshan S, Huang O, Kantor MA, Lai AR, Manchanda A, Moore KA, Muniyappa AN, Nair G, Patel PP, …
• Household Wealth and Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Persons With Dementia: Role of Comorbidities and Caregivers.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025 Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Motmans B, Boscardin WJ, Blank LJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• More on Antihypertensive Medications and Cognitive Function in Nursing Home Residents-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2025 Jing B, Deardorff WJ, Odden MC
• "Nobody Can Be Equipped for This": Advice From New Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025 Lam K, Harrison JD, Haller L, Deardorff WJ, Sudore RL, Covinsky KE, Matlock DD, Dohan D
• External Validation of the Walter Index for Posthospitalization Mortality Prediction in Older Adults.
  JAMA network open 2025 Avelino-Silva TJ, Lee SJ, Covinsky KE, Walter LC, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin J, Campora F, Szlejf C, Suemoto CK, Smith AK
• Deprescribing of Antihypertensive Medications and Cognitive Function in Nursing Home Residents.
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Jing B, Liu X, Graham LA, Dave CV, Li Y, Fung K, Liu CK, Abdel Magid HS, Growdon ME, Deardorff WJ, Boscardin WJ, Lee SJ, Steinman MA, Odden MC
• Impact of Hospitalizations on Problematic Medication Use Among Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2024 Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Blank LJ, Bongiovanni T, Yaffe K, Boscardin WJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA
• Use of a Financial Incentive Code for In-Home COVID-19 Vaccination of Homebound Older Adults.
  JAMA 2024 Zimbroff RM, Deardorff WJ, Song S, Nikolov MC, Growdon ME
• From bedside-to-model: Designing clinical prediction rules for implementation.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Haimovich AD, Deardorff WJ
• 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
• 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
• Incorporating Prognosis into Clinical Decision-Making for Older Adults with Diabetes.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Deardorff WJ, Covinsky K
• 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
• Improving Clinical Applicability of Mortality Prediction Models Among Persons With Dementia-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Deardorff WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ
• Fingerstick glucose monitoring by cognitive impairment status in Veterans Affairs nursing home residents with diabetes.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Nguyen B, Deardorff WJ, Shi Y, Jing B, Lee AK, Lee SJ
• Do functional status and Medicare claims data improve the predictive accuracy of an electronic health record mortality index? Findings from a national Veterans Affairs cohort.
  BMC geriatrics 2022 Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Jeon SY, Boscardin WJ, Lee AK, Fung KZ, Lee SJ
• Comparing Machine Learning to Regression Methods for Mortality Prediction Using Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record Clinical Data.
  Medical care 2022 Jing B, Boscardin WJ, Deardorff WJ, Jeon SY, Lee AK, Donovan AL, Lee SJ
• Mild cognitive impairment as a clinical and research outcome: Ready for prime time?
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Deardorff WJ, Lee SJ
• COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Deardorff WJ, Binford SS, Cole I, James T, Rathfon M, Rennke S, Wallhagen M
• Hospitalization Risk Among Older Adults with Sensory Impairments: Development of a Prognostic Model.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Deardorff WJ, Sloane RJ, Pavon JM, Hastings SN, Whitson HE
• Regulation of Iron Homeostasis through Parkin-Mediated Lactoferrin Ubiquitylation.
  Biochemistry 2020 Gholkar AA, Schmollinger S, Velasquez EF, Lo YC, Cohn W, Capri J, Dharmarajan H, Deardorff WJ, Gao LW, Abdusamad M, Whitelegge JP, Torres JZ
• Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Deardorff WJ, Liu PL, Sloane R, Van Houtven C, Pieper CF, Hastings SN, Cohen HJ, Whitson HE
• Behavioral and psychological symptoms in Alzheimer's dementia and vascular dementia.
  Handbook of clinical neurology 2019 Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT
• A fixed-dose combination of memantine extended-release and donepezil in the treatment of moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.
  Drug design, development and therapy 2016 Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT
• Pharmacotherapeutic strategies in the treatment of severe Alzheimer's disease.
  Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy 2016 Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT
• Targeting neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: evidence for NSAIDs and novel therapeutics.
  Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2016 Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT
• Efficacy of rivastigmine tartrate, transdermal system, in Alzheimer's disease.
  Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy 2016 Nieto RA, Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT
• The Use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors Across All Stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
  Drugs & aging 2015 Deardorff WJ, Feen E, Grossberg GT
• Tctex1d2 associates with short-rib polydactyly syndrome proteins and is required for ciliogenesis.
  Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2015 Gholkar AA, Senese S, Lo YC, Capri J, Deardorff WJ, Dharmarajan H, Contreras E, Hodara E, Whitelegge JP, Jackson PK, Torres JZ
• Safety and clinical effects of EVP-6124 in subjects with Alzheimer's disease currently or previously receiving an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor medication.
  Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2014 Deardorff WJ, Shobassy A, Grossberg GT
• A review of the clinical efficacy, safety and tolerability of the antidepressants vilazodone, levomilnacipran and vortioxetine.
  Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy 2014 Deardorff WJ, Grossberg GT