The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. Calac, Victor A. J Natl Med Assoc.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah. Kara 10:12 Yep.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. And so as with many things, I think that plan by the DEA was put into place in response to something bad that happened.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73