Louise Aronson

Louise Aronson is a doctor, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, she is the author of a short story collection, A History of the Present Illness (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the forthcoming non-fiction Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life (Bloomsbury, June 11, 2019). Her articles and stories have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Narrative Magazine, and Bellevue Literary Review and have earned her a MacDowell fellowship, the Sonora Review Prize, and four Pushcart nominations. For her medical work, she has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. Learn more at www.louisearonson.com.