Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

Every year in Connecticut, about 17,000 adults are diagnosed with diabetes, a serious chronic condition. Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program.

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Treatment Plan Diabetes Consulting Management 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. There’s an education series, a lecture series, and I had the opportunity to give a talk on this very topic to those providers. They’re not just the test referral center.

Families 101

Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. That gave rise to the GEMSSTAR, which is grants for early medical and surgical specialists in aging research that’s supported by NIA.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Yes. Devon: Yes.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. That gave rise to the GEMSSTAR, which is grants for early medical and surgical specialists in aging research that’s supported by NIA.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. I’m happy to.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Simple febrile seizures do not require neurology consults or admissions. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. And then there’s genetic epilepsy plus febrile seizures, which you are not going to diagnose in the ED. You’re providing education and reassurance to a worried family.

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Illness Vaccination Families Family 59