article thumbnail

Chronic Kidney Disease with Dr. Gunjan Garg

Louisville Lectures

She then presents the pathophysiology and epidemiology, screening, and clinical manifestations. After, she discusses hypertension, dyslipidemia, management, and so on. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org Gunjan Garg presents an overview on "Chronic Kidney Disease" by first discussing the definition and staging.

article thumbnail

Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015. He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine. Physicians Practice Pearls Profiles is a dynamic new feature designed to bring our trusted columnists off the page and onto your screen.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136
article thumbnail

The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

IT 99
article thumbnail

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown. And so if you’re talking about healthcare providers and healthcare systems, start with waste and do an education with people of how to manage the waste. And you start small.

article thumbnail

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. And I was terrified.

article thumbnail

Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. So, they were finding that their miscarriage management was constrained and sometimes less safe, honestly, because of the restrictions. And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. I got it the second time. Lori: Absolutely.