Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 24, 2024

This year’s event was a testament to the vibrant community of family physicians, medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals dedicated to advancing family medicine in Alabama. Before her journey into medicine, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Laboratory Science.

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Medical Student DO Family Medicine Family Physician 130

My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Earth Day is an opportunity for medical professionals to lead the conversation on how sustainability directly affects health. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5%

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare Community Medical Advice 52

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

Illness 52

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways. And we can talk about that later in terms of potential clinical implications that may have code. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And then we had half day workshops to get the frontline team just really excited about being the first ACE unit in the State of Alabama. Eric: What do you think, Kellie? Any other thoughts?

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I see the need professionally and I see it personally certainly. I started out working on a grant in a NeuroPAL clinic with people that had advanced Parkinson’s and related disorders and Alzheimer’s. It has to be seen as valued to clinical outcomes. So this would be balancing dementia-friendly communities.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

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