Louise Aronson
Geriatrician, writer and professor
Louise Aronson is a geriatrician and writer who teaches medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She wrote Elderhood, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Born 1963 in San Francisco, United States
About Louise Aronson
Louise Aronson is an American doctor who treats older patients, writes, and holds a professorship in medicine at UCSF. She trained at Harvard Medical School and also took part in the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her book Elderhood reached the New York Times bestseller list and was a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Her earlier book, the short story collection A History of the Present Illness, came out in 2013. She has directed the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center. Among her honors are the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine and a Clinician-Teacher of the Year award from the American Geriatrics Society.