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Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics

Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics Program

The SGIM Geriatrics Task Force is pleased to announce C. Seth Landefeld, MD, as the 2011 SGIM Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics.

Dr. Landefeld is a general internist and geriatrician.  He is Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Chief of the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF. He also directs the UCSF John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatrics and the UCSF/Mt. Zion Center on Aging. 

Dr. Landefeld is passionate about general medicine and the application of the generalist’s worldview and skills to improving the health of the sick and vulnerable.  His work aims to improve health care for older people with serious illness.  He has built and led clinical and educational programs focused on this goal.  In his research, he has used two therapies as model problems in improving health care, anticoagulant therapy and acute hospitalization. In a series of studies, Dr. Landefeld developed new methods of outcome measurement, prognostic risk stratification, and prevention of adverse events to improve the outcomes of anticoagulant therapy. In a second line of investigation, he and his colleagues studied the functional outcomes of acutely ill, hospitalized older persons. This work led to the invention, evaluation, and widespread dissemination of Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Units. In other work, Dr. Landefeld and his colleagues have advanced the use of autopsies as a method for detecting preventable deaths and measuring the quality of care, elucidated behavioral determinants of physicians' decisions, and developed prediction methods to estimate the prognosis of chronic disease and to evaluate the outcomes of care.

Dr. Landefeld previously served as Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Care Research, Case Western Reserve University, as President of Midwest SGIM, and as Treasurer and President of SGIM.  He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs.  He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.
 

Past Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics
 

2010    Marie A. Bernard, MD (National Institute on Aging)
2009    Albert L. Siu, MD, MPH (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
2008    Neil M. Resnick, MD (University of Pittsburgh)
2007    Mary Tinetti, MD (Yale University School of Medicine)
2006    David Reuben, MD (UCLA)
2005    Christine Cassel, MD (University of Pennsylvania)
2004    Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH (University of Washington)