Kenneth Covinsky, MD, MPH, BS

Professor
Medicine
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Dr. Covinsky is a Professor of Medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and Director of the UCSF Older Americans Independence Center.  His research focuses on the determinants and outcomes of disability in older persons.  His work has identified the role of hospitalization as a precipitant of disability and examined the medical and psychosocial factors that accelerate disability.  His work has focused on the development of prognostic and risk adjustment models in older persons, with a focus on the importance of geriatric measures as determinants of risk.

Featured Publications: 

I Would Not Be Surprised. What Next?

American journal of nephrology

Perry LP, Covinsky KE

Difficulty and help with activities of daily living among older adults living alone with cognitive impairment.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Edwards RD, Brenowitz WD, Portacolone E, Covinsky KE, Bindman A, Glymour MM, Torres JM

Insight into the post-hospital syndrome: a 3-month longitudinal follow up on geriatric syndromes and their association with functional decline, readmission and mortality.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

van Seben R, Covinsky KE, Reichardt LA, Aarden JJ, van der Schaaf M, van der Esch M, Engelbert RHH, Twisk JWR, Bosch JA, Buurman BM

Frailty after lung transplantation is associated with impaired health-related quality of life and mortality.

Thorax

Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Huang CY, Gao Y, Glidden DV, Soong A, Sutter N, Katz PP, Greenland JR, Calabrese DR, Hays SR, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Kukreja J, Deuse T, Wolters PJ, Covinsky K, Blanc PD, Singer JP

Advance Care Planning Prior to Death in Older Adults with Hip Fracture.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kata A, Cenzer I, Sudore RL, Covinsky KE, Tang VL

Switching Between Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Before And After The Onset Of Functional Disability.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Ankuda CK, Ornstein KA, Covinsky KE, Bollens-Lund E, Meier DE, Kelley AS

Association of Functional, Cognitive, and Psychological Measures With 1-Year Mortality in Patients Undergoing Major Surgery.

JAMA surgery

Tang VL, Jing B, Boscardin J, Ngo S, Silvestrini M, Finlayson E, Covinsky KE