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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. Amy 00:34 Excited to be here.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. Should do medicine?”

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. I’m an internal medicine physician. We prescribe medicines. Alison and I go way back.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I think it’s. Often that doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for other things.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Great to be here.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond?

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. We in the medical community would know it because our hospitals would be full of cardiovascular disease, of pulmonary disease, of other things. They once said every child, not every child but many children got diabetes from COVID.