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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. Shnekendorf noted that physician distribution is a top concern for IDSA, which aims to address it partially through its compensation initiative and telehealth data.

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

GeriPal

I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Ruth: Absolutely. We didn’t respond.