FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. Over the years, this function expanded to cancer (renamed the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) and, ultimately, all serious and life-threatening diseases (dropping the AIDS nomenclature).

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Patients Patient-Centered Clinic IT 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It feels special to me. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. I’m an empowered patient advocate, individual, and I feel like the motions, the feels were not necessarily in my essay at all. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me. They’re limited.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. There’s nothing special about it. So religion, much less.

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