Louise Aronson

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Louise Aronson, born in 1963 in San Francisco, is an American geriatrician, writer, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She grew up in a secular Jewish family with German and French ancestry and initially hoped to be an author or basketball player. She studied at Brown University, earning a BA in History and Medical Anthropology in 1986, then earned an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1992 and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. In 2006 she joined UCSF as an academic physician and later received the Medical Education Research Fellowship, the 2011 Cooke Award, and served in the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators (2010–2016). She has held a professorship focused on fostering humanism in medicine. Aronson wrote A History of the Present Illness, a novel about medicine and humanity, and Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, a non-fiction work that drew on her experiences and aging of her parents. Elderhood was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She was named a 2019 Influencer in Aging and won the 2019–2020 Humanism in Aging Leadership Award.