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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. Offer telehealth services to cut patient travel emissions while improving accessibility. can spark awareness and action.

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How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. In the US, we live in a society where there are a lot of mixed messages about nutrition in the media that are heavily influenced by diet culture and the idealization of thinness.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. Kate: Sure.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Or delivering them through telehealth, and we can talk about that. Or let’s say it’s even on telehealth and video, feel good enough to sit and interact with a therapist for 60 minutes once a week? But so modifying them for cancer populations, like Elissa mentioned, people are doing that.