Professional Information
- Profession
- Physician
- Degree
- MD
- Primary Area of Practice
- Geriatrics
- Specialty/Area of Focus
- Internal Medicine
- Bio
- Eric Widera is a clinician-educator in the Division of Geriatrics. His main goal is to improve the care provided to elderly patients with severe chronic and/or terminal conditions through program development and educational innovations. Eric accomplishes this through various leadership roles, including Director of the Hospice & Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Program Director for the Geriatrics Fellowship at UCSF.
Eric received his medical school training at UCSF and his internal medicine training at Mount Sinai Hospital. He returned to UCSF to complete a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine. He joined the faculty at UCSF in August of 2006. Since then, Eric has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA) and the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award. He has also been selected by the Hartford Foundation as a Center of Excellence Faculty Scholar.
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Profile Details
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- NPI
- 1124134309
- Site Groups
- Pain Medicine Physician, Geriatrician, Physician, Doctor, Internist
