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Thiago J. Avelino-Silva
@geritjas.bsky.social
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#Geriatrics, MD, PhD, T32 @UCSF, acute care & #delirium aficionado, Lego enthusiast, quirky photographer, husband, dad, dog person, illustrator, not necessarily in that order… 🖖
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Geriatricians Houman Javedan & Vicky Tang discuss Preoperative Assessments for Older Adults, emphasizing CGAs, frailty screening, and the Geriatric Surgery Verification program to optimize outcomes. #medsky

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September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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GeriPACTs bring specialized team-based care to older veterans with complex needs - smaller panels, geriatric training & more social work/pharmacy support. But are they better than standard care? #medsky

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September 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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In hospitals, dementia often goes unseen. We validated the informant-based Clinical Dementia Rating, showing that listening to caregivers offers a reliable way to detect cognitive impairment at the bedside @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pulling Back the Curtain on Hospital Dementia Detection: Validation of the Informant‐Based Clinical Dementia Rating
Pulling Back the Curtain on Hospital Dementia Detection: Validation of the Informant-Based Clinical Dementia Rating.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Dr. Angela Suen authored a review on pulmonary function test interpretation in older adults, highlighting advances, limitations, and key considerations for clinicians. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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August 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Drs. @julia-adler-mils.bsky.social, Mitch Erickson, Todd James, @serogersmd.bsky.social, James Hardy & colleagues published in Annals of Emergency Medicine on Age-Friendly EDs—showing mCGA may reduce admissions for older adults. doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Outcomes Associated With an Age-Friendly Emergency Department Intervention
To assess whether an emergency department (ED) modified comprehensive geriatric assessment (mCGA) designed to address the unique needs of older adults…
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August 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Grant rejection is part of every researcher’s journey — and it never stops, no matter your career stage.

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Podcast – Failing Forward: What My Grant Rejection Taught Me - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Grant rejection is part of research life. Fiona McLean speaks with Sarah Marzi, Kate Harris and Dayne Beccano-Kelly on lessons learned and resilience.
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August 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Goals of care discussions are still taboo in many places—"Addressing this significant gap through proactive communication strategies and systemic changes is vital for ensuring truly patient-centered care." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @prepareforyourcare.org
Goals of Care Documentation for Older Patients Admitted Through the Emergency Department: A Whisper in Geriatric Acute Care
Population aging challenges health care systems, particularly emergency departments (EDs) and acute care hospitals, where older adults frequently present with high vulnerability and less favorable out...
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August 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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We discuss the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, what it is, benefits, JAGS study showing it's more cost-effective vs usual care, & who it helps the most. #medsky
  
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😀 Guests: Eric Wong & Thiago Avelino-Silva
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Excellent work led by @stirlandia.bsky.social highlighting the critical link between multimorbidity 🩺 and dementia 🧠—important insights for better care of older adults!
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Multimorbidity in dementia: Current perspectives and future challenges
Multimorbidity—the co-occurrence of two or more chronic health conditions—affects > 86% of people with dementia. It is associated with cognitive and functional decline, reduced health-related qualit...
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August 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Once upon a time, radiology rounds were a daily part of the work flow of the inpatient medical team. What has been lost with its demise?
Nice essay @JAMAInternalMed
Reading Room jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reading Room
This essay describes the importance of trainees and young physicians building a relationship with radiologists.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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My great-grandmother was born 150 years ago. In this special article
@agsjournal.bsky.social , we tell a little about her story and reflect on resilience and aging. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social
Cocota's Story: Life Lessons in Aging, Resilience, and End‐of‐Life Agency From a Brazilian Matriarch
Resilience, cultivated across physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and spiritual domains, shapes how older adults navigate late-life challenges yet remains unfamiliar to many clinicians. Drawing on the...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#Dementia patients having Lucid Episodes can be impactful for family, loved ones, #caregivers, and others. We discuss this impact with nurse researcher Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & philosopher Andrew Peterson. #medsky
 
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May 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Making the case for the importance of music as medicine. #medsky

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
On this week's podcast we discuss using Music as Medicine for seriously ill patients and those with dementia with guests Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison.
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May 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Congrats to Dr. @alexsmithmd.bsky.social‬ on receiving the 2025 Excellence in Faculty Advising Award from the TICR Program! Honored for outstanding mentorship—well deserved! 🎉 #UCSF #ClinicalResearch #FacultyExcellence
May 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Top 10 Tips #Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About
Supporting Coping in Serious Illness. # 6 is key - patient’s coping is not “good” or “bad”; instead, ask how it serves or hinders a patient in a given time and situation.
#medsky #palliativecare www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....
May 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Drs. Silva (@geritjas.bsky.social‬) & ‪@seijlee.bsky.social‬ call on geriatricians to lead with impact today while building a stronger future in their new @agsjournal.bsky.social‬ editorial: “Geriatricians: Maximizing Impact Now…” #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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May 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, received the 2025 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award from @AFARorg for her impactful, multidisciplinary research in health services and aging. Congrats, Dr. Hunt! 👏
May 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Tomorrow (May 21), join Drs. Chanmi Park and David Levine for a great talk on reducing #delirium in the post-acute hospitalization period.

Learn more and register: deliriumnetwork.org/webinars/upc...
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Tomorrow (May 21), join Drs. Chanmi Park and David Levine for a great talk on reducing delirium in the post-acute hospitalization period.
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Honoring our amazing faculty at the 27th Holly Smith Dinner! 🎉 Congrats to Drs. Jacklyn Katz, @leahjwitt.bsky.social, @alexsmithmd.bsky.social, @rconant.bsky.social, Lynn Flint & @seijlee.bsky.social on your well-deserved awards! 👏 #UCSF
May 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Making It Count Twice: A Single Age-Friendly Deprescribing Workshop for Either Medical Residents or Geriatric Fellows. #geriatrics #medsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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🌟 PREPAREforYourCare.org just relaunched with a fresh look, new features, and updated resources to support patients, caregivers & clinicians in advance care planning. Explore now: prepareforyourcare.org
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May 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The editors of the three major journals in Geriatric Medicine give their perspectives on several important topics related to journal editing and publishing. #geriatrics
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May 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Misplaced keys? Forgotten items? Is it more than aging? In @JAMAInternalMed, @ewidera.bsky.social & @kencovinsky.bsky.social urge caution on the marketing push for Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers in primary care. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hospitalized patients with dementia are infrequently present in GOC conversations and less likely to have their values and preferences for medical care documented within a GOC note. #geriatrics #palliativecare agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Today we discuss Nudging Critical Care Clinicians to consider a more Palliative approach to care and the associated JAMA IM study. Does nudging work? Guests Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, and Jaspal Singh. #medsky
 
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May 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM