San Antonio Health Literacy Conference
Jerald Winakur, MD, FACP, CMD
Improving Health Literacy Across the Lifespan:
Growing Wiser and Healthier
Some of Dr. Winakur's accomplishments:
Jerry Winakur graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1973, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) in 1976, and has practiced internal and geriatric medicine in San Antonio, Texas for over thirty years, currently with Pasteur Medical Associates, the group he founded in 1990. He is also a Certified Medical Director for long-term care institutions and is credentialed by the American Medical Directors Association. He serves on the Ethics Committee of this organization.Dr. Winakur is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UTHSCSA and an Associate Faculty member at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics where he helps teach the core curriculum. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
He and his wife, the lawyer-poet Lee Robinson, have co-taught their seminar, “Being Human: Contemporary Issues in Science, Medicine and Society,” to undergraduates at UTSA and Trinity University, and currently teach an ongoing “Literature and Medicine” class to medical students at UTHSCSA.
In 2005, Dr. Winakur’s essay, “What Are We Going To Do With Dad,” appeared in Health Affairs and The Washington Post and was syndicated in newspapers across America. He has been interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show and Fresh Air with Terry Gross as well as other syndicated radio shows. He has authored a monthly column, “Meditations on Medicine,” in LifeTimes, and currently authors a quarterly column on aging and geriatric medicine in Caring for the Ages. He regularly speaks to lay audiences and health care professionals on the ethical caregiving of our senior citizens, and has been an active participant in the health reform debate addressing the National Press Club on end-of life issues, televised on C-Span in September, 2009. His book, Memory Lessons: A Doctor’s Story, which he describes as a “memoir-manifesto,” was published by Hyperion Books in January, 2009. It is about his life as a geriatrician, a commentary on aging and medical care in America, and the trials and joys of being the son of an old, old man.
