The Future of Palliative Care? Community-Based Models with Alan Chiu, Mindy Stewart-Coffee, and Ben Thompson
January 22, 2026
“I just want to say one word to you. One word. Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.” This iconic…
Uncertainty In Medicine: Jonathan Ilgen and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
January 15, 2026
All Posts · Decision Making · Diagnosis · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Palliative Care · Prognosis
The only certainty in medicine is uncertainty. It touches every aspect of clinical practice, from diagnosis to treatment to prognosis…
Why We Need QI Collaboratives: Guests Steve Pantilat, David Currow, and Arif Kamal
January 8, 2026
In a recent episode of the GeriPal podcast, we explored whether the field of palliative care is in need of…
Is Attending to Clinician Distress Our Job? Sara Johnson, Yael Schenker, & Anne Kelly
December 18, 2025
All Posts · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Palliative Care · Social Work · Stress
Have you had one of those consults in which you’re thinking, huh, sounds like the patient’s goals are clear, it’s…
Medical Billing and Coding in Geriatrics: Peter Hollmann, Ken Koncilja, and Audrey Chun
October 30, 2025
Last month, the “Billing Boys”—Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers—joined the GeriPal podcast to demystify medical billing and coding in palliative…
GeriPal Live! at NPCRC Foley Retreat: Dio Kavalieratos, Prasanna Ananth, Alexi Wright
October 16, 2025
This is the second GeriPal podcast we’ve recorded live using this format, see this link to our prior podcast at…
Pre-Operative Geri Assessment: Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan
September 25, 2025
We love getting requests from listeners for podcast topics. This request came from geriatricians we met at the annual American…
Is Geriatrics-focused Primary Care (GeriPACT) Better? Nicki Hastings, Kristie Hsu, and Ken Covinsky
September 4, 2025
On today’s podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned…
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Who It Helps Most: Eric Wong and Thiago Silva
August 21, 2025
In today’s podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, about the comprehensive…
What instead? Alternatives to Beers: Todd Semla and Mike Steinman
August 14, 2025
On a prior podcast we talked with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman about the update to the AGS Beers Criteria…