Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine , University of California, San Francisco
Carla M. Perissinotto, M.D., M.H.S., is a Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative medicine.
In 2023, She founded Get Aging, which provides home-based primary care and palliative care in Northern California and Georgia. She served as the associate chief for geriatrics clinical programs at UCSF from 2017 to 2021. In this role she oversaw and developed new clinical programs serving older adults across care settings.
She has worked as a hospice medical director where she worked to rethink how we care for patients with terminal dementia. For over a decade she has worked in home-based primary care focusing on serving underserved older adults.
Dr. Perissinotto has gained national and international recognition for her research on the effects of loneliness on the health of older adults. Her research and advocacy focuses on integration of loneliness assessments in health care, and evaluation and implementation of community-based programs focused on addressing loneliness and isolation in adults.