Rationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White
June 2, 2020
The question of who should get limited supplies of drugs that treat COVID-19 is not a theoretical question, like what…
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Podcast with Laura Petrillo
May 30, 2020
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. They are revolutionary and transforming cancer care. They shrink tumors and extend lives. Plus they have a…
Ramping up Tele-GeriPal in a Pandemic: Claire Ankuda, Chris Woodrell, Ashwin Kotwal, & Lynn Flint
May 26, 2020
As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay, one year ago…
Palliative Care for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: Podcast with Benzi Kluger
May 22, 2020
Parkinson disease affects 1% to 2% of people older than 65 years. Most known for its distinctive motor symptoms, other…
COVID19 in Prisons: Podcast with Brie Williams, Adnan Khan, & Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie
May 19, 2020
Eight of the 10 largest outbreaks in the US have been in correctional facilities. Physical distancing is impossible in prisons…
Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
May 12, 2020
We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we’re going to discuss on this podcast,…
What is Emotional PPE? Podcast with Dani Chammas
May 6, 2020
We are delighted to have Dani Chammas, psychiatrist and palliative care physician, back on the GeriPal podcast to talk about…
Proactive Integration of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Principles Into COPD: Podcast with Anand Iyer
April 30, 2020
What’s the role of geriatrics and palliative care in the care of individuals with COPD? We talk this week with…
The Outsized Impact of COVID in Nursing Homes & in Dementia: Guests Kathleen Unroe & Ellen Kaehr
April 28, 2020
Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and…
Love letter to Mt. Sinai
April 25, 2020
We were asked by Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School…