Podcast Episodes

A Strategic Path Forward for Hospice & Palliative Care: Ira Byock, Kristi Newport, Brynn Bowman

Episode 381

In June of 2025, hospice and palliative care pioneer Ira Byock published a white paper outlining the urgent challenges facing the field today. In a nutshell, he expressed concerns that the quality of…

Published on 8 hours ago

Palliative Care in Sickle Cell: Craig Blinderman, Stephanie Kiser, Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa

Episode 380

Today's topic on palliative care for sickle cell disease may raise eyebrows with some of you.  You might think, wait, now we're doing sickle cell?  On top of liquid cancer and transplant, kidney di…

Published on 1 week ago

Medical Billing and Coding in Geriatrics: Peter Hollmann, Ken Koncilja, and Audrey Chun

Episode 379

Last month, the "Billing Boys"—Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers—joined the GeriPal podcast to demystify medical billing and coding in palliative care. This month, we're back with part two, shifting the …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman

Episode 378

I'm going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield & Jason Wasserman. This quote illustrates the tension between the widely held view in b…

Published on 3 weeks ago

GeriPal Live! at NPCRC Foley Retreat: Dio Kavalieratos, Prasanna Ananth, Alexi Wright

Episode 377

This is the second GeriPal podcast we've recorded live using this format, see this link to our prior podcast at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) meeting in Philadelphia. Also look for ou…

Published on 4 weeks ago

GeriPal Live! at CAPC: Karen Bullock, Kim Curseen, Matt Gonzales

Episode 376

Eric and I had the pleasure of doing a GeriPal Live! Podcast as the closing keynote for the recent Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) National Assembly in Philadelphia PA.

For this podcast, we …

Published on 1 month ago

Pre-Operative Geri Assessment: Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan

Episode 375

We love getting requests from listeners for podcast topics. This request came from geriatricians we met at the annual American Geriatrics Society meeting in Chicago. They wanted to know more about …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Makes a Good Death? Karen Steinhauser, Rasa Mikelyte, Edison Vidal

Episode 374

What is a "good death"? How should we define it, and who gets to decide? Is the concept of a "good death" even useful?

Twenty-five years ago, Karen Steinhauser published a groundbreaking study in JAM…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Medical Billing and Coding with the "Billing Boys"

Episode 373

A podcast on medical billing and coding??? Ok, hear us out as we were skeptical too. We've invited the Billing Boys, Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers, who convinced us of the following:

Billing is comp…

Published on 2 months ago

Is Geriatrics-focused Primary Care (GeriPACT) Better? A Podcast with Nicki Hastings, Kristie Hsu, and Ken Covinsky

Episode 372

On today's podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned Care Team (GeriPACT) program.  It's designed with smaller patien…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago