The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country.

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Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. She notes she was born in Iran and her family emigrated to Canada and then to the United States just a month before 9/11. Erratum in: Lancet.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. So it’s not preventing all infections, even a fourth shot.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100