A joy talking AI & healthcare on the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast podcast w/ Alex Smith, MD & Eric Widera, MD. On top of discussions re: will AI replace MDs and on deskilling, you'll hear me sing/play a song (at start) and demo GPT-4 telling a young parent she has cancer (@ 19:00)
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AAHPM is launching the Serious Illness Research Consultant Center. Early/mid-career investigators can get matched with experts based off 5 core categories. Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to become a consultant or an investigator! Learn more: bit.ly/3JpKOZe

'From bedside-to-model: Designing clinical prediction rules for implementation' (JAGS 2024) - 'By inverting the model-to-bedside pipeline and instead using a bedside-to-model pipeline, researchers prioritize clinician and patient needs' - agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Congrats to Dr. Eric Widera @ewidera, elected to UCSF Dept of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians! One of the highest honors UC San Francisco. @Ewidera is a doctor's doctor who models how to help patients/families through life's hardest moments medicine.ucsf.edu/about/faculty/…

Congratulations to Eric Widera, MD on being named a 2024 UCSF Master Clinician!

(This is not a cruel April Fools joke)

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#hapc #geriatrics #meded

📚See our Journal of Palliative Medicine paper led by Elise Tarbi, PhD, APRN & Caitlyn Moore: what #PalliativeCare clinicians should know about tending to the existential experience🔗:liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jp…➡️We are often ill-prepared to meet these needs🚨This paper can help! Harvey Max Chochinov Elizabeth Broden, PhD, RN (she/her) ☮️

Drs. Carla Perissinotto & Ashwin Kotwal will speak at the Peninsula Family Service Thought Leader Series: 'Overcoming the Epidemic of Loneliness: A Community Challenge' on Weds, 4/3 at 8:30 - 11:30am in Redwood City, CA. Reserve your free ticket: shorturl.at/pSUYZ

Results from Innovative PALS program pairing health science students (nursing, medicine, pharmacy) with nursing home residents to reduce #loneliness and #socialisolation Foundation for Social Connection (F4SC) #OnAging2024

Thanks Alex Smith, MD for your mentorship! Grateful to AAHPM for this honor - I’m leaving this year’s meeting so inspired by the #hapc24 community… and already looking forward to next year’s GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast pub crawl in Denver!

It’s important for those w/ #dementia & their caregivers to be screened for #loneliness , a UC San Francisco & @harvard study finds. Support groups & community choirs tailored for dementia patients & caregivers may be low stress options, UCSF’s Krista Lyn Harrison says. ucsfh.org/49ZdiVm

'This study considered dyadic MA enrollment decisions, examining the association of respondent plan changes with partner plan changes and other beneficiary and plan characteristics.' Learn more about Claire Ankuda and colleagues' lastest pub: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Just a reminder that #medicalstudents and #residents can join AAHPM for free. If you are a trainee, please join and learn more. If you are a #hapc educator, please welcome trainees into our community. aahpm.org/membership/joi…
#hpm #pedpc #palliative #hospice #meded

Anyone know of studies on impact of entresto specifically on QOL in older adults? WHO ARE MY GERI CARDS PEEPS OUT THERE?? I know it helps the middle aged but I see soooo much hypotension in older adults on this med. #cardiology #geriatrician #HFrEF

MA plans deny claims, and delay payments.
'Our primary goal is to take care of patients, their single focus is shareholder value and profits,' Mr. Barwis told the Courant. 'The Medicare Advantage abuse is outrageous.' beckerspayer.com/payer/hospital…

'...many of the challenges of aging are shared by everyone, at every age. How do we find and strengthen community when our old connections fade away? ... How do we reconcile how the world sees us with how we see ourselves?'
nytimes.com/2024/03/16/ins…

We revisit #Dysphagia & #ThickenedLiquids with 2 researchers / SLPs: Raele Donetha Robison & Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP. We discuss epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, rehabilitation, feeding tubes + more.

Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEp302 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

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