UCLA Intensive Course The 2025 UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review had a successful and impactful year, bringing clinicians from across the country for comprehensive, useful, practice‑relevant education in geriatric medicine. Despite ongoing budget constraints across hospital systems, the course welcomed more than 250 attendees, including 63 returning participants who had attended the course in prior years. The 2025 program featured expert‑led didactics covering the full spectrum of geriatrics care. This year’s curriculum included a new session on the care of LGBTQ+ Older Adults: Pearls for the Geriatrician, in addition to sessions on advances in the treatment of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, sleep disorders, heart failure, late-life depression, and anxiety disorders, preventive health care in the geriatric patient, and other complex issues in older adult care. The following individuals were nominated as awardees for the 41st UCLA Intensive Course. The Cherkin Memorial Award recognizes a research scientist for significant contributions to brain aging and neurodegeneration, while the Solomon Memorial Award is UCLA’s highest honor for a clinical research leader in the field of aging. The Drs. Dan and Erna Osterweil Award for Innovation in Geriatric Medicine recognizes and supports junior- and senior-level UCLA faculty or staff who demonstrate innovation in population health, dementia, or advanced illness management.
The Arthur C. Cherkin Memorial Award in Neuroscience recipient, Dr. Gil Rabinovici , UCSF (on Clinical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s Disease: New Insights in the Era of Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy).
David H Solomon Memorial Award recipient - Dr. Amy Kind , University of Wisconsin, Madison (on The Power of Neighborhoods: Social Exposome and Brain Health).
Winner of the Drs. Dan and Erna Osterweil Award for Innovation - Dr. Teresa E Seeman , UCLA (on Viewing Aging Trajectories Through a Biopsychosocial Lens).
A mini-pack of five foundational lectures from the 2025 Intensive Course is now available for purchase (click HERE), as an on-demand learning opportunity for clinicians seeking core geriatrics education. We’re launching a new video podcast series featuring candid conversations between leaders in geriatric medicine, reflecting on clinical decision- making, evolving perspectives, and the philosophy behind the practice. An extension of the intensive course tradition in our 42nd year, this series brings expert voices in a deeper dialogue. The trailer premieres next month.
The 2026 Intensive Course will take place on September 16–19, 2026. For more information, visit:
Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and Board Review website
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UCLA Geriatrics Newsletter / Issue 3 / March 2026
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