Michael Steinman, MD

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Associate Program Director: Medicine (VA)

Michael Steinman is program director for the San Francisco VA site of the UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program and has been involved with UCSF NCSP since its inception. Trained as a geriatrician and internist, he is Professor of Medicine in the UCSF and SFVA Division of Geriatrics and holds an affiliate appointment in the Institute for Health Policy Studies. He devotes most of his time to research, which is focused primarily on identifying and improving the quality of medication prescribing in clinically complex older adults, while also maintaining clinical practice in the geriatrics clinic and inpatient general medicine service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. His research interests also include improving evaluation and care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, and he has a strong interest in mentorship and supporting career development for early-career investigators and in research program development.

In addition to his role in NCSP, Mike holds a number of local and national leadership positions. He is co-leader of the UCSF Pepper Center for Aging Research and co-Principal Investigator of the US Deprescribing Research Network (https://deprescribingresearch.org/), an NIH-funded national research network for research on deprescribing medications in older adults. He also has leadership roles with national organizations, including serving as co-chair of the guideline panel for the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Older Adults.

Publications

Top 10 Signs and Symptoms of Psychotropic Adverse Drug Events to Monitor in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

McInerney BE, Cross AJ, Alderman CP, Bhat R, Boyd CM, Brandt N, Cossette B, Desforges K, Dowd LA, Frank C, Hartikainen S, Herrmann N, Hilmer SN, Jack L, Jordan S, Kitamura CR, Koujiya E, Lampela P, Macfarlane S, Manias E, Martin C, Martínez-Velilla N, Moriarty F, Onder G, Quirke T, Silvius JL, Soulsby N, Stafford AC, Steinman MA, Sun W, Taguchi R, Todd A, Trenaman SC, Yap KZ, Zhao M, Bell JS, Turner JP

Deprescribing in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Krishnaswami A, Steinman MA, Goyal P, Zullo AR, Anderson TS, Birtcher KK, Goodlin SJ, Maurer MS, Alexander KP, Rich MW, Tjia J, Geriatric Cardiology Section Leadership Council, American College of Cardiology

Authors' Reply.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Ishida JH, McCulloch CE, Steinman MA, Grimes BA, Johansen KL

Age affects outcomes in chronic kidney disease.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

O'Hare AM, Choi AI, Bertenthal D, Bacchetti P, Garg AX, Kaufman JS, Walter LC, Mehta KM, Steinman MA, Allon M, McClellan WM, Landefeld CS