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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Community-Based Prevention: The conversation then moves toward community-based prevention, with Dr. Simon advocating for trusted community networks to support youth mental health.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. And so for our example, when we launched our brand new ACE unit here at UAB in 2008, we did not have the funds to redesign the unit until three years later.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

What made this trial, I would say, unique, is that you have a palliative care physician and nurse following people with medication tapering in order to be dosed. So medication adjustments. Just to wrap up my portion of telling about the trial, these medications are amplifiers of consciousness, and they can worsen pain.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Who’s going to manage these medications?

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. And where I’m going with this is even if … Or patient-centered medical home, patient-centered care, right?