FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. Over the years, this function expanded to cancer (renamed the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) and, ultimately, all serious and life-threatening diseases (dropping the AIDS nomenclature).

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Patients Patient-Centered Clinic IT 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. ” Eric: It strikes me that there also seems to be a difference between coaching a team, like many of us are familiar with, and this individual coaching, although there may be group coaching as well. Although, to me, that blurs together a little bit. Greg: Yeah. .”

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Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 110

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. The foundational literature in this area has furthered stigma and bias, especially towards Black birthing persons.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. If we are not part of the solution, we are complicit in structural injustice. Push back against dehumanizing language.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. Well, I guess just over 20 years ago. And she said, I run like hell. Sue 12:23 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. Or telephone calls, I should say. I’ll say it.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. There’s this therapeutic relationship.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. You had no relationship. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. And he actually was able to get through that with a lot of help from different people.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. But it’s the people in the relationships that you meet. And that’s not particularly sexy.

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Eric: Yeah.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. What were those spiritual domains? Is that your grandchildren?

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. Go ahead, Alex.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So classically with preparation, in individual settings or even in group settings, you have one or two people supporting people through psychoeducation, what to expect, life review. I love that.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. That is safe.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” It’s all individual. Juliet: I feel like I stumbled upon this number of years ago actually. It’s impressive.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

IT 124

IT Family Families Relationship 124

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. I am there with individuals who are dying.

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It feels special to me. They’re limited because, on the individual level, when you get down to it, the complexities of these stories and the caring involved may lead to these complex relationships, understanding what the goals are, as you had done with your mom. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Voting and emailing congress to advocate for systemic change (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. So I realized, okay, it can be kind of a malleable concept.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. It’s a lot. And Jennifer, if you go ahead. Yeah, yeah.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. How do you think about polypharmacy for these individuals? I don’t know where the right cut point is, but yeah, that’s what I would say.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. There’s nothing special about it. I don’t think it needs a special term particularly. Robert: Professional relationship. Alex: … professional relationship to the patient?

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19