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
NEJM 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 nurse-led intervention to provide emotional …
00:35:07 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
How 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 week's podcast. Keren is a social science re…
00:33:11 |
Mon 21 May 2018
Melissa 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 national dataset of people receiving hemo…
00:32:37 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Communicating 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 physicians communicate with home health agenc…
00:30:44 |
Wed 02 May 2018
Is 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 dying but express a dire to end their lives…
00:31:41 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Integrating 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. This conversation was motivated in part by…
00:33:25 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
Elder 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 article in the Journal of American Geriat…
00:28:57 |
Mon 02 Apr 2018
After 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 Harvard Medical School in Boston. We re…
00:21:15 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
Should 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 may have it, one of the authors is co-h…
00:33:14 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Tim 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. Dr. Quill has pushed our nation to seri…
00:34:51 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Hypoglycemia 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 Diabetes in a National Sample of Nursing H…
00:26:16 |
Tue 20 Feb 2018
Palliative 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, to talk with nurse researcher Caroline St…
00:28:25 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
Do 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 shelf segment, top to bottom, was filled …
00:23:47 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Preparing 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 geriatrics at Northwestern Memorial Hospi…
00:28:45 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Advance 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 meet these needs. We've invited Kara Bi…
00:29:53 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Wealth 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 co-host on this podcast. They recently wrot…
00:30:48 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Prognostication 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 Center, past president of AAHPM, recent AAH…
00:34:18 |
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Palliative 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 of this issue: the role of palliative c…
00:41:25 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Tom 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. With guest co-host Dan Matlock, MD, from th…
00:21:51 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Implicit 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 care, as well as the role of that cultur…
00:38:24 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
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