Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The number of nurse practitioners specializing in geriatrics has more than tripled since 2010, increasing the availability of care to the current population of seniors, a recent study in JAMA Network Open found.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. This is Eric Widera.

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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. So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He was a terrible diabetic. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. After he got out, he came to San Francisco to kind of start a new life, which began and ended in the tenderloin. His hands were gone. And I was.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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 1, 2025

Older adults may not have received AIDS education. Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example. I mean, you know, you mentioned diabetes. Meredith 17:07 Yes. What am I doing?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. There are other acute issues, blood pressure medication, diabetes. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Obesity medicine is likely heading the way of treatments for high blood pressure or diabetes, with three to five effective options for different types of patients. But Strong said that already some of the contacts at the FDA she’d spent nearly 15 years educating about the disorder have left the agency.

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