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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. Speaker Biographies Dr. Jessica Isom, MD, MPH, is a board-certified community psychiatrist and faculty leader in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We’ve also invited Mike Harper, the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) as well as past-president for the society (and my previous program director). The fact that we have I think something like 3000 health systems that are at least now somewhat certified and moving to a higher levels of certification.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So we had myself and other board certified surgeons from different specialties go through this very large list and then come up with whether or not we thought it was really causally related to mortality generally. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.