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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Elissa Kozlov, who’s a geropsychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior Society and Policy at Rutgers School of Public Health, and is also director of a newly developed MPH in Public Population Aging. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Oh, wow.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Is “terminal” mental illness a thing?

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