Geriatrician focused on keeping older adults at home. Medical Director with On Lok PACE & UCSF Geriatrics faculty. All views expressed are my own.
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2008
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Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Frail older adults with CKD most frequently focus their goals on function, physical health, social engagement, and leisure. These goals did not vary by participants' frailty status or CKD stage. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
This qualitative study of internal medicine residents investigated factors moderating imposter phenomenon. Proactively addressing these factors could contribute to creating supportive environments that foster the success of residents bit.ly/3ZsFFc3 #MedEd @SusanMirabalMD
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
🧨#452 NAFLD/MASLD with Dr. Elliot Tapper! Expert guest Dr. Elliot Tapper (@ebtapper) shares his framework for approaching NAFLD/MASLD and the treatment tools he recommends including lifestyle modifications and medications. #FOAMED
- mailchi.mp/thecurbsiders/452
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Gonna be on NPR's @Marketplace this evening, talking about older folks with mortgages who can't rely on home equity to fund retirement, assisted living or downsizing. Are they aging in place or stuck in place? marketplace.org/
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Gabapentin "The we dont know what else to do drug" Gabapentin is one of the most overused drugs and has lots of side effects. Great article @Paula_Span nytimes.com/2024/08/17/healt…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Prognostication in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (JAGS 2024) - "Current prognostic models for ADRD in NHs lack the accuracy necessary to improve prognostication for hospice. Better understanding of prognosis will support goal-concordant care" - agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
It’s true that medicine is both an art and a science.
But, if you don’t get the art right, the science will always fail.
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
"Our health system and its workforce are wholly unprepared to deal with an imminent surge of multimorbidity, functional impairment, dementia, and frailty. This is the reality that health care organizations and medical schools ...have chosen to ignore."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
A school board in VA, where a teacher was shot in class by her 6yo student, argues such shootings should simply be considered “a hazard of the job.”
Only in the U.S. would people dare say gun violence in schools is not just unremarkable, it is expected.
denverpost.com/2023/05/03/ed…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Research shows that employee's willingness to support organisation-wide change initiatives has fallen drastically since the pandemic, across all sectors. A key reason? At a time when people are still recovering, the change is too fast & too top down. 4 ways forward:
1) Clearly prioritise change
2) Build in periods of proactive rest to sustain change energy
3) Co-create change with people at all levels
4) Reimagine the role of managers in change
hbr.org/2023/05/employees-ar…. By @Gartner_inc
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
This week’s most viewed article: Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States nej.md/3Ez4ire #GunViolence
ALT Leading Causes of Death among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999 through 2020. Children and adolescents are defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Men over 70 can usually stop getting screened for prostate cancer, but too many continue and, as a result, undergo aggressive treatment. nytimes.com/2023/05/08/healt…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
the COOLEST Geri-Pulm research being showcased #AGS23. COPD + O2 = more social isolation and loneliness. @angsuen @AshwinKotwalMD @UCSFWIP @UCSFPCCMFellows
@UCSFGeriatrics @ericafarrandMD
@anandiyermd @jsinger0 @prepareforcare @GeriPulm
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Wonderfully succinct and useful pearls from Dr Sarah Berry about counseling older pts regarding tx for osteoporosis #AGS23 #clinicalpearls
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
Housing --> lower mortality risk in homeless older adults (including adults 50+) #geriatrics #AGS23 Brown et al jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
endless #AGS23 pearls: what about lecanemab for dementia??
➡️findings support LESS DECLINE in cog only! (NOT same as improvement, which would be 🔑 to discuss w/patients & care partners!)
➡️clinical benefit unclear
➡️risk of harms may be greater than benefit
#geriatrics
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
#VAQSSI2022
Stormy weather won’t stop the VA @qualityscholar’s from having loads of fun together!
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
The best time management advice I ever received:
Plan for the time you have considering the body and mind that you’re working with at the moment.
Jessica Eng, MD (also on Blue Sky) retweeted
1/🧵 Long COVID Brain Science: 🧠
For ~100M suffering 🌎, let’s use data to combat myths & #Misinformation
COVID is biologically dangerous long after virus is gone
#LongCOVID affects our….
📍Olfactory & Limbic Systems
📍 Interferon Autoimmunity
📍PET scans
📍Astrocytes
How?
