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Alex Smith, MD, MPH, MS

Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Alex Smith is Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Co-host of the GeriPal podcast, Co-founder of ePrognosis, director of UCSF's T32 post-doctoral fellowship in aging and palliative care research, and Executive Editor at the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).

Dr. Smith received his medical school training in the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program. He completed a primary care internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) followed by two fellowships, a one-year clinical fellowship in Palliative Medicine at BWH and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, followed by a two-year General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, including an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Smith returned to UCSF in July 2008 as faculty in the Division of Geriatrics.

Dr. Smith's research is focused on improving quality of life and patient-physician communication for older adults, particularly those with a limited prognosis.

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