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Mission

UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults transforms surgical care so that older adults can achieve their treatment goals and maintain independence and vitality. 

Goals

Providing patient-centered surgical care in the older adult by:

  • Individualizing and enhancing risk communication between patients and their care providers
  • Fostering patient-centered surgical decision-making so that patients can achieve their goals before and after surgery
  • Helping patients get fit for surgery
  • Delivering perioperative care that incorporate best practices in geriatric surgery
  • Facilitating safe transitions to home and independence after surgery

Pioneering care improvement in older surgical patients by:

  • Identifying and refining best practices in geriatric surgery through outcomes assessment, comparative effectiveness analyses, and interventional trials
  • Discover barriers to delivery of optimal care and improve implementation of interdisciplinary patient-centered surgical care for older adults 

Providing training in geriatric surgery principles and practices by creating educational programs to train future care providers by:

  • Innovating new models of interdisciplinary care training where trainees across disciplines learn side by side to care for older surgical patients
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