Events, Screening and Specialization

Why Younger Adults Shouldn’t Skip Cholesterol Screenings

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. So pointing people in the right direction sounds like an easy task, but it’s actually very hard as we begin to really segment our services and get real specialized in what we do.

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Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Cathy: Actually, many years ago, I did some research on delirium and then I was doing some research on nursing home residents and we were doing work looking at, I was interested in how sleep problems and nighttime events might lead to delirium, and then I just became very, very interested in sleep. Because it’s not enough.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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. I had it on my screen. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Areej: Thanks so much for having us. Jennifer: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. You might see me on the TV screens next year. I think that’s more palliative than me. Alex 09:00 Not true. Theresa 09:01 Oh, no.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. It’s a lot of lyric all at once.

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

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. And you can work at different levels of prevention. Go on, Anna.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512. ” And you miss this opportunity to say, “Hey, this is a major event in this person’s life.”

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Like Alex said, it’s not just about the nortriptyline and the new opioid receptors, that there’s something else that makes the work we do special. Redwing, I invite you to expand on that and to read us in another poem. That sense of community and connection is a healing in itself.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs.

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Why Younger Adults Shouldn’t Skip Cholesterol Screenings

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

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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

Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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