GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . And so I trained as an epidemiologist before medical school, and started out studying prostate cancer. And so really am fascinated by tough medical decisions. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. I heard that. And that is not actually tangential.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions. I slowly introduced higher doses as he recovered from his medical conditions that were acute.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

He’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, and he’s one of my former research mentees, and he’s very interested in medical ethics and decision making in the ICU. I was a medical and psychiatric resident between 1977 and 1982. He is a pulmonologist and critical care physician. Brian: Thanks so much. Susan: Great.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania. I see us measuring choice of a medical durable power of attorney. And then we were like, Well, what is a medical decision? Well, what’s a major medical decision?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care. That’s the love.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. Is that right?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? I was always critical care bound since medical school. I’m controlling everything your placebo versus medication trials.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. Why another study? So the question is, how do you pay for it?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. Bill 00:53 Thank you, Alex.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home.

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