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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
A geriatrics and palliative medicine podcast for every health care professional. Two UCSF doctors, Eric Widera and Alex Smith, invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn, and maybe sing along. CME and MOC credit available (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) at www.geripal.org
Episodes
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastManaging Behavioral Symptoms in Dementia: Podcast with Helen Kales
In this week's podcast we talk with Helen Kales, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan the VA Center for Clinical Management and Research…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastChurning Patients Through the End of Life: A Podcast with Joan Teno
On this weeks podcast, we interview Dr. Joan Teno about her recently published study in JAMA titled "Site of Death, Place of Care, and Health Care Transitions…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastNumber Needed to Tweet: Podcast with Charlie Wray
This week we talk with Charlie Wray, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, about why clinicians should use social media in their professional lives…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHospice of Humboldt: Podcast with John Nelson
In this week's GeriPal podcast we talked with Dr. John Nelson, who has been Medical Director of Hospice of Humboldt for 17 years.
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDilemmas in Aid in Dying: Podcast with Bernie Lo
In this week's podcast we talked with Dr. Bernard Lo (Bernie as he is known). Dr. Lo is President of the Greenwall Foundation, a foundation dedicated to…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastGeriatricizing the ICU
For today's GeriPal Podcast we talk with Drs. Nathan Brummel and Lauren Ferrante, both critical care physician-researchers, about integrating geriatrics…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastTramadon't: a podcast with David Juurlink about the dangers of Tramadol
Tramadol. Is it just a misunderstood opioid that is finally seeing its well deserved day in the sun, or is it as our podcast guest David Jurrlink would say…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDestination Therapy: A Podcast about LVAD decision making with Dan Matlock and Allen Podcast
On today's episode we talk to Larry Allen and Dan Matlock about decision making around destination therapy. No this has nothing to do with your summer vacation…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDementia Specific Advance Directive: Podcast with Barak Gaster
In this weeks GeriPal podcast, we interview Dr. Barak Gaster, Professor of Medicine and General Internist at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastA Social Worker Led Palliative Care Intervention in Heart Failure: An Interview with Arden O'Donnell
Can routine initiation of goals of care discussions by a palliative care social worker improve prognostic understanding, elicit advanced care preferences, and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastNEJM Family-Support Intervention Trail, Breakthrough or Bust? Podcast with Doug White
This week's guest is Doug White, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and lead author of a randomized controlled study of a…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHow do patients decide whether or not to initiate dialysis? An Interview with Keren Ladin
How do patients come to the decision regarding whether or not to initiate dialysis? Well, that is the question that we talk about with Keren Ladin on this…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMelissa Wachterman Podcast: Dialysis and Hospice
This week, Eric and I talked with Melissa Wachterman, a physician researcher from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Melissa used a…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCommunicating with Home Health: Podcast with Cynthia Boyd
In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Cynthia Boyd, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine about how…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastIs Suicide Ever Rational? A Podcast with Meera Balasubramaniam
There is a lot of discussion about the right to die. Although most of these have to do with Physician Assisted Death (PAD). What about in those who are not…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastIntegrating Palliative Care In The Emergency Department With David Wang
In this weeks podcast we talked with David Wang about how palliative care can join forces with the emergency department to improve care for the serious ill…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastElder Abuse and the Role of Emergency Medical Services (#EMS)
On todays podcast, we will be talking with Brooke Namboodri and we have Tim Platts-Mills from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about their new…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAfter intubation in the ED, 33% die in hospital: GeriPal Podcast with Kei Ouchi
In this weeks GeriPal/JAGS Podcast we talked witk Kei Ouchi, an emergency medicine physician, internist, and researcher at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastShould Concept of the "The Good Death" Be Buried? A Podcast with VJ Periyakoil
On this week's podcast, we talk with the authors of a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) article titled Should We Bury "The Good Death"? As luck…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastTim Quill on voluntary stopping eating and drinking
For this week's GeriPal podcast we are honored to be joined by Tim Quill, palliative care physician and bioethicist from the University of Rochester, New York…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHypoglycemia in Hospice: A Podcast with Laura Petrillo
For this weeks podcast, we talk with Laura Petrillo, lead author of a recent paper published in JAMA IM titled "Hypoglycemia in Hospice Patients With Type 2…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPalliative care in nursing homes: Podcast with Caroline Stephens
Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative approach. Revealing indeed, therefore…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastDo proton pump inhibitors cause dementia?
Proton pump inhibitors are one of the most widely used medications. As I note in the podcast below, I was in my local drug store the other day, and an entire…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPreparing for the 4th Quarter - An Interview with Lee Lindquist
Today we have Lee Lindquist with us on the GeriPal podcast to talk about planning for the "4th quarter" of life. Dr. Lindquist is a geriatrician and chief of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastAdvance Care Planning in the Hospital: Are Palliative Care Doctors Doing Enough?
We have a great podcast this week exploring the advance care planning needs for hospitalized adults and what palliative care teams are doing (and not doing) to…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastWealth Disparities in the US and England: A Podcast with Lena Makaroun and Sei Lee
Our guests this week are Lena Makaroun, MD, a research fellow at the VA Pudget Sound, and Sei Lee, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and frequent…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPrognostication with Christian Sinclair
For this weeks podcast, we talk all about prognostication with Christian Sinclair. Christian is a palliative care physician at University of Kansas Medical…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPalliative Care, Chronic Pain, and the Opioid Epidemic: GeriPal Podcast with Jessie Merlin
In this week's GeriPal podcast, we talk with Jessie Merlin, Palliative Care Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, who is addressing another important aspect…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastTom Gill on Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice
In this week's GeriPal Podcast, sponsored also by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, we talk with Tom Gill, MD, Professor of Medicine at Yale…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastImplicit Bias and Its Impact in Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care
On this week's podcast, we have invited Dr. Kimberly Curseen to talk about how implicit bias influences us as providers in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastGretchen Schwarze on Using Scenario Planning to Facilitate Informed Decision Making
On this GeriPal podcast we discuss the value of "scenario planning" in informed decision making with Gretchen Schwarze, Associate Professor in the Division of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSongs that Inspire, Move, or Make Us Think about Geriatrics or Palliative Care
Back in 2009, Pallimed created one of my favorite posts titled "Top 10 Contemporary Palliative Care Songs". In it, they made a list of "contemporary" songs…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSarah Hooper on Medical Legal Practice Clinics for Seniors
On this weeks podcast, we have Sarah Hooper, J.D., the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy, an…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastZara Cooper the Need to Integrate Geriatrics and Palliative Care into Trauma Surgery
Zara Cooper the Need to Integrate Geriatrics and Palliative Care into Trauma Surgery by Alex Smith and Eric Widera
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHow to have a code status conversation with Laura Petrillo and a live studio audience
How to have a code status conversation with Laura Petrillo and a live studio audience by Alex Smith and Eric Widera
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastVicki Jackson and David Ryan: Living with Cancer
Vicki Jackson and David Ryan: Living with Cancer by Alex Smith and Eric Widera
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Battle For Veterans' Healthcare: An Interview with Suzanne Gordon
The Veterans Healthcare System is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States and one that trains the majority of physicians who practice in…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastOptimizing Aging Collaborative: An Interview with Anna Chodos
We interview Anna Chodos, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Geriatrics at UCSF, about her work in creating the Optimizing Aging…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLife After the Diagnosis: A Podcast with Steve Pantilat
On today's podcast, we interview Steve Pantilat about his new book "Life After the Diagnosis: Expert Advice on Living Well with Serious Illness for Patients…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMaking Friends with the Enemies of the People: an Interview with NY Times Reporter Paula Span
This week's GeriPal Podcast features NY Times journalist Paula Span about what we can do as educators, as researchers, and as clinicians, to collaborate with…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHow to Recommend to Stop Cancer Screening: An Interview with Nancy Shoenborn
What should you say to your older patient when it's time to stop cancer screening? This week's GeriPal Podcast features Nancy Shoenborn, Assistant Professor of…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastVanessa Grubbs on Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
Today's GeriPal Podcast features Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Vanessa talks with us about her forthcoming book…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSandra Moody on Palliative Care in Japan
For this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Sandra Moody, MD, about her experiences in geriatrics and palliative care in Kamogawa City, Japan. Sandra helped…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastRebecca Sudore on Advance Care Planning: The Prepare Trial
We talked with Rebecca about the results of The Prepare Trail, a randomized controlled trial of an easy-to-read advance directive PLUS a web-based decision aid…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastChurning Patients Through Care Settings at the End Of Life: An Interview with Shi-Yi Wang
A study published in JAGS reported approximately one-third of the Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2011 had four or more transitions within their last 6…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSamir Sinha: Redesigning Health Care Systems to Be Elder Friendly
On todays podcast, we interview Dr. Samir K. Sinha, MD on how he has influenced local and national policy to redesign the care we give to older adults. Dr…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastPalliative Care in Rural America: An Interview with Michael Fratkin
On this weeks podcast, we interview Michael D. Fratkin, a palliative care clinician and founder of ResolutionCare, a palliative care service for rural and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSean Morrison on the Current State of Palliative Care
Today's GeriPal podcast features Sean Morrison, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician, director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastLaura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
Today's GeriPal podcast features Laura Hanson, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura discusses…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMuriel Gillick: On Being Old and Sick in America's Health Care System
We discuss with geriatrician, palliative care clinician, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and author Muriel Gillick about the state of our…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastMark Supiano Podcast - How Low Should We Go with Blood Pressure in Older Adults
In this GeriPal Podcast we talk with Dr. Mark A. Supiano about a blood pressure management in older adults in the light of new evidence from the Systolic Blood…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastJessica Zitter on Palliative Care in the ICU
We talk with Dr. Jessica Zitter, a pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine physician, and author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastNate Goldstein - The Role of Palliative Care in Heart Failure
On todays podcast we interview Nathan Goldstein, MD, Chief of the Division of Palliative Care for Mount Sinai Beth Israel. We discuss his experiences and…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastVicki Jackson on Building the Evidence Base for Palliative Care
On todays podcast, we talk with Vicki Jackson, Chief of the Palliative Care Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastRejecting Neutrality - Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of life or changing the course of illness…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastImproving Serious Illness Communication By Developing Formulations
Clinical formulations, something that few of us outside of mental health providers know about, but are critical in improving communication skills, especially…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastThe Conversation - Angelo Volandes On Video Advance Care Planning
On todays podcast, we talk with Angelo Volandes about the use of video to improve advance care planning.
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastCranberries and Urinary Tract Infections
Just in time for Thanksgiving, we are having an episode dedicated to the humble cranberry. We discuss the use of cranberries to preventing urinary tract…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHallelujah: Integrating Primary Palliative Care In The ICU
There are a lot of ways one can imagine on how to integrate palliative care into the intensive care unit (ICU). Today, we talk with ICU doctor and researcher…
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastSweet Little Lies: When Is It Ok To Lie To Patients?
Truth telling is an ethical pillar of medicine. But, are there instances when it is ever ok to lie? In this episode of the GeriPal podcast we explore the use…