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
Becoming an Advocate for Older Adults: A Podcast with Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and palliative care physician who leads Altarum’s work on eldercare, wrote a recent JAGS editorial titled The “Fierce Urgency of Now”: Geriatrics Professionals Speaking up…
00:41:58 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Hiding Behind High Value Care: A Podcast with Vinny Arora and Chris Moriates
You're the attending physician on a teaching service. Your resident says we shouldn't order a CT because CT's are over-used for this condition, and represent overuse, waste, and low-value care. In th…
00:42:46 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
The life of individuals with moderate dementia: A Podcast with Krista Harrison
On this weeks podcast, we talk with Krista Harrison about the life of individuals living with moderate dementia, as well as what we know about their caregivers. Krista is is an Assistant Professor in…
00:37:43 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Aid in Dying: A Podcast with Lewis Cohen
In this week's podcast we talk with Lew Cohen, MD, about his new book "A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over How We Die." Eric and I approached reading this book with trepidation. We feared it woul…
00:47:06 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
Improving Advance Care Planning for Latinos with Cancer: A Podcast with Fischer and Fink
In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Stacy Fischer, MD and Regina Fink, RN, PhD, both from the University of Colorado, about a lay health navigator intervention to improve advance care plannin…
00:34:11 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
Practical Advice for the End of Life: A Podcast with BJ Miller
This week we talk with BJ Miller, hospice and palliative care physician, public speaker, and now author with Shoshana Berger of the book "A Beginner's Guide to the End." As we note on the podcast, BJ…
00:44:34 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
Advance Care Planning before Major Surgery: A Podcast with Vicky Tang
This weeks podcast is all about the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, advanced care planning and surgery with our guest Dr. Vicky Tang. Vicky is an assistant professor and researcher here …
00:31:19 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
The Future of Palliative Care: A Podcast with Diane Meier
There are few names more closely associated with palliative care than Diane Meier. She is an international leader of palliative care, a MacArthur "genius" awardee, and amongst many other leadership r…
00:43:56 |
Fri 14 Jun 2019
Psychedelics: Podcast with Ira Byock
In this week's podcast, we talk with Dr. Ira Byock, a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care through the end of life. Ira Byock wrote a provocative and comp…
00:37:34 |
Thu 06 Jun 2019
Elderhood: Podcast with Louise Aronson
In this week's podcast we talk with Louise Aronson MD, MFA, Professor of Geriatrics at UCSF about her new book Elderhood, available for purchase now for delivery on the release date June 11th. We are…
00:36:19 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Delirium: A podcast with Sharon Inouye
In this week's GeriPal podcast we discuss the research into delirium with a focus on prevention. We are joined by internationally acclaimed delirium researcher Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH. Dr Inouye is Pr…
00:38:07 |
Thu 02 May 2019
Are Palliative Care Providers Better Prognosticators? A Podcast with Bob Gramling
Estimating prognosis is hard and clinicians get very little training on how to do it. Maybe that is one of the reasons that clinicians are more likely to be optimistic and tend to overestimate patien…
00:35:49 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Multimorbidity - Quantifying It's Impact on Mental and Physical Health: A podcast with Melissa Wei
On today's podcast we talk with one of the national experts on multimorbidity, Melissa Wei. Dr. Wei is an Assistant Professor and physician researcher at the University of Michigan. In addition to de…
00:27:18 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
Language Matters: Podcast with Brian Block and Anna DeForest
In this weeks GeriPal podcast we take a deeper dive into this issue of language and medicine. We are joined by guests Anna DeForest, MD, MFA, a resident in Neurology at Yale, and Brian Block, MD, a p…
00:40:34 |
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Serious Illness Conversation Guide: Podcast with Rachelle Bernacki and Jo Paladino
Our first live podcast at the annual meeting for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine! We invited Rachelle Bernacki and Jo Paladino to discuss their two papers published today on t…
00:40:59 |
Thu 14 Mar 2019
Does Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering Prevent Dementia? A Podcast with Jeff Williamson
As Eric notes in the introduction, this recent study in JAMA by Jeff Williamson and colleagues led to some very contradictory headlines. Some headlines proclaimed that lowering blood pressure prevent…
00:34:44 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
Time to Remove Feeding Tubes from POLST: Podcast with Susan Tolle and Elizabeth Eckstrom
In the 1990s, Susan Tolle helped create the POLST. Now she and Elizabeth Eckstrom want to change it. And personally, I think they're right.
00:38:48 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Specialty and Primary Palliative Care Social Work: A Podcast with Bridget Sumser
On this week's podcast we have Bridget Sumser, a clinical palliative care social worker, board member for the Advanced Palliative Hospice Social Worker certification exam, and now co-author of a new …
00:29:06 |
Fri 08 Feb 2019
Rehabbed to Death NEJM Perspective: Podcast with Lynn Flint
Three reasons you should listen to this podcast: The issue of patients cycling back and forth between the hospital and skilled nursing facilities near the end of life is common, will ring true to tho…
00:33:34 |
Wed 30 Jan 2019
Fever, malaise, AMS -- Is it an infection? Podcast with Jeff Caterino
Geriatrics teaches us that older adults with infections often present with non-specific symptoms rather than typical localizing symptoms of infection present in younger adults. Sometimes they present…
00:30:43 |
Wed 23 Jan 2019
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