Assistant Professor of Medicine & Geriatrician
University of California, San Francisco
Matthew E. Growdon, MD, MPH is a geriatrician and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Growdon’s research is focused on improving the quality and safety of prescribing for older adults, with an emphasis on those with cognitive impairment and social vulnerability. Dr. Growdon received his medical school training at Harvard Medical School and his MPH with an emphasis on quantitative methods from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He subsequently completed a clinical geriatrics fellowship in the Harvard Medical School Multicampus Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, a chief residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Advanced Training in Clinical Research Certificate Program at UCSF. He is the recent recipient of a two-year NIH AHRQ Learning Health Systems K12 grant (July 2022-June 2024), through which he is leading projects aiming to improve opportunities for deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications for older adults receiving primary care at UCSF Health.
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