Louise Walter, MD

Associate Professor In Residence, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics

	Louise Walter, MD

Dr. Louise Walter is a clinician-researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and is the Co-Director of the UCSF Geriatrics Research Program.  Her research is focused on how age and health affect the use and outcomes of cancer screening in older patients to better inform individualized screening decisions.  Through her high-impact publications and policy work she has become a national leader in evaluating the real-world risks and benefits of cancer screening in older patients.  She is currently the Principal Investigator on a VA Health Services Research & Development grant to determine the use and outcomes of colorectal cancer screening in older adults and the Principal Investigator on an National Cancer Institute R01 grant to determine the downstream consequences of prostate-specific antigen screening in older men.  She is a mentor for students, fellows, and junior faculty interested in aging research through the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and the Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program, and she is a faculty mentor through the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Career Development (KL2) Program.  In addition, she is an Associate Editor for the new JAMA series of articles, "Care of the Aging Patient: From Evidence to Action."

Dr. Walter received her MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995.  She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in geriatrics at UCSF. Dr. Walter joined the UCSF faculty in July 2001, and she is a staff physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine

		Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Dr. Ralph Gonzales is Professor of Medicine; Epidemiology and Biostatistics.  He attended medical school and completed his internal medicine residency at UCSF, and has been on faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine since 2001.  He has been involved in clinical research training and career development of fellows and faculty at UCSF through his own research in practice innovations and quality improvement, as well as through his leadership in two key training programs at UCSF—the General Internal Medicine Research Fellowship (2003-2005) and the CTSI KL2 Career Development Program in Clinical and Translational Research (2005-present); as well as the UCSF Program in Implementation and Dissemination Sciences.  Dr Gonzales has provided senior mentorship to trainees and faculty across a variety of UCSF Schools and Departments, and he continues to provide mentorship to trainees who have relocated to other institutions.

	Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony Recipients of the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Awards and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards will be honored by the Chancellor at the annual Founders Day Banquet on April 29, and in Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony to be held April 14, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in Cole Hall.