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

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Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. So at six months.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. But I really wanted this project to be a love letter to that community. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). It is a screening? And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Lexy: Great.

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

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When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU. Well, the irony is that this diethye resurrected from the poorest communities in the mediterranean region. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging.

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