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
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 373
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Ramping up Tele-GeriPal in a Pandemic: Claire Ankuda, Chris Woodrell, Ashwin Kotwal, & Lynn Flint
As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-1982?journalCode=aim), one year ago people were o…
00:45:33 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Palliative Care for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: Podcast with Benzi Kluger
Parkinson disease affects 1% to 2% of people older than 65 years. Most known for its distinctive motor symptoms, other distressing symptoms are pain, fatigue, depression, and cognitive impairment. Ab…
00:36:33 |
Fri 22 May 2020
COVID19 in Prisons
Eight of the 10 largest outbreaks in the US have been in correctional facilities. Physical distancing is impossible in prisons and jails - they're not built for it. Walkways 3 feet wide. Bunk beds wh…
00:54:55 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Do Sitters Prevent Falls for Hospitalized Patients?
One million inpatient falls occur annually in U.S. acute care hospitals. Sitters, also referred to as Continuous Patient Aids (CPA's) or safety attendants, are frequently used to prevent falls in hig…
00:30:27 |
Fri 15 May 2020
Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we're going to discuss on this podcast, but we are rationing - in the way we allocate fewer tests and less PPE to nursing homes comp…
00:39:42 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Surgical Palliative Care: A Podcast with Red Hoffman
The cross-over episode is an American tradition that is near and dear to my heart. My childhood is filled with special moments that brought some of my very favorite characters together. Alf crossed o…
00:40:27 |
Fri 08 May 2020
What is Emotional PPE? Podcast with Dani Chammas
We are delighted to have Dani Chammas, psychiatrist and palliative care physician, back on the GeriPal podcast to talk about emotional PPE. None of us can recall who originated the term, but we've al…
00:55:22 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Proactive Integration of Geriatrics & Palliative Care Principles into COPD: Podcast with Anand Iyer
What's the role of geriatrics and palliative care in the care of individuals with COPD? We talk this week with Anand Iyer, the lead author of this weeks JAMA IM article on this subject. It's a little…
00:39:12 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
The Outsized Impact of COVID in Nursing Homes & in Dementia: Guests Kathleen Unroe & Ellen Kaehr
Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and post acute care settings. In this follow up podcast, we talk about the situation in long ter…
00:48:55 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Love letter to Mt. Sinai
We were asked by Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, to compose a brief GeriPal video of thanks, sup…
00:12:51 |
Sat 25 Apr 2020
Life Right After the Surge: A Podcast with NYU Clinicians Ab Brody and Audrey Tan
The peak hospitalizations and deaths in New York City hit around April 7th. Life though in hospitals in New York though have not returned to normal. What were previously operating rooms, post-hip fra…
00:45:45 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
The State of COVID19 in Boston: Podcast with Zara Cooper, Rachelle Bernacki, and Ricky Leiter
In today's podcast we talk with Zara Cooper, Rachelle Bernacki, and Ricky Leiter about the state of COVID at the Brigham and Women's hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston. While they have …
00:51:35 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Therapeutic Presence in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Keri Brenner and Dani Chammas
"It's not about perfection...it's about connection." - Keri Brenner This week's podcast features a dynamic duo of palliative care psychiatrists, Dr. Keri Brenner from Stanford, and Dr. Dani Chammas f…
00:52:26 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
How are hospices responding to the COVID pandemic? Podcast with Kai Romero and Todd Cote
The vast majority of hospice services are delivered in patient's homes or other places of residence like nursing homes. This makes the traditional model of hospice care vulnerable in this coronavirus…
00:45:05 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
COVID in Long Term Care: Podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski
Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. Seventeen of your patients are dead. The other physicians who p…
00:54:49 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
COVID in New York 3: Podcast with Audrey Chun and Sheila Barton
In today's podcast we talk with Audrey Chun, Professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Sheila Barton, a social worker in the Geriatrics practice at Mt. Sin…
00:33:36 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
COVID in New York 2: Podcast with Craig Blinderman, Shunichi Nakagawa, and Ana Berlin
In the latest in our series of talking with front line providers in the midst of the COVID pandemic, we talk with Drs. Craig Blinderman, Shunichi Nakagawa, and Ana Berlin of the palliative care servi…
00:51:06 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
COVID in New York - and on the Front Lines: Podcast with Cynthia Pan
New York is the current epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, with over 30,000 confirmed cases as of March 25th. Hospitals and ED's are seeing a surge of patients, and geriatrics and palliati…
00:34:43 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Palliative care on the front lines of COVID: Podcast with Darrell Owens
Many of us with clinical roles are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Today we hear from Dr. Darrell Owens, DNP, MSN, head of palliative care for the University of Washington's Northwest campus, a c…
00:38:50 |
Mon 23 Mar 2020
Rationing Life Saving Treatments During COVID Pandemics: A Podcast with Doug White and James Frank
You are caring for two adults with COVID-19. One who is a previously healthy 70 year old. One is 55 with multiple medical comorbidities. Both are now requiring mechanical ventilation, but there is on…
00:50:20 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
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