Theresa Allison, MD, M. Music, PhD
@gerimuse
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Professor, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Music, identity and well-being in the context of dementia and relationships.
San Francisco
Joined May 2013
Summary - Music & Brain Health Summit Performance
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Music & Dementia Research Summit at AARP—please join us!
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RT @AlexSmithMD: Get psyched for the Geriatrics Literature Update at #AGS24! My wife Cindy (pictured bottom left) made one prop already. Ca….
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RT @NCIREveterans: Congratulations to NCIRE-supported Principal Investigator and Board Member Kristine Yaffe, MD, for being ranked as one o….
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RT @NCIREveterans: Congratulations to NCIRE-supported researcher Dr. Theresa Allison for receiving a NIH Award to support her research proj….
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RT @Fran_Nicosia: Words cannot express the incredible, sudden loss of our beloved Sharon Kaufman over the weekend 😢💔. Incredibly grateful t….
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RT @Niyati187: Surreal to retweet as a Twitter novice, but so honored to share information about our arts programming for our military-conn….
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RT @blkwomenshealth: Appointing Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith to be one of the doctors to lead the new Coronavirus Task Force, makes it clear th….
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RT @UCSF: #UCSFProud: President-elect @JoeBiden and Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris appointed 3 UCSF faculty members to the Biden-Harris….
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"In short, racism kills. Whether through force, deprivation or discrimination, it is a fundamental cause of disease and the strange but familiar root of racial health inequities." On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities
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“So far, the greatest unmet need in successfully fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US relates to the insights provided by the social sciences” Yes & the arts and humanities are also critical to the study of empathy.
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RT @LouiseAronson: I love it when a leading organization chooses health and health care over caution, tradition and all things that too oft….
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Treatment of home care workers during COVID should provoke outrage. We need regulatory change to support these skilled professionals.
A large proportion of home health workers are women of color and immigrants. Allison notes that their poor treatment has its genesis in structural racism. The findings of @mad_sters is a call to action. We need structural reforms /7.
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RT @Fran_Nicosia: Exciting news! My grant to expand rural #Veteran access to #yoga is getting funded! Looking forward to launching a new Te….
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In which, 12 minutes in, Dr. Covinsky hears a scream. .
Drs. Theresa Allison (@gerimuse), Ken Covinsky (@geri_doc), and Madeline Sterling (@mad_sters) did a JN Learning podcast on the Experiences of Home Health Care Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. #covid19 #coronavirus Listen here:
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RT @UCSFGeriatrics: Drs. Theresa Allison (@gerimuse), Anna Oh, and Krista Harrison (@klharrisonPhD) published a commentary on the "Extreme….
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RT @mad_sters: It’s a privilege & honor to share this study- “Home Health Care Worker Experiences in NYC During COVID-19” .
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