Podcast Episodes

Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

Episode 363

In this week’s episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care be in the business of caring for them? Spoiler: It’s more …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

Episode 362

June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later found that people with dementia do indeed have persistent seve…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

Episode 361

Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners!

Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:

Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride, the first op…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: A Podcast with Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

Episode 360

If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. During my training, I didn’t receive much education abou…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes

Episode 359

The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4 million adults residing in U.S. nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly h…

Published on 3 months ago

Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

Episode 358

Have any of you watched the movie “The Notebook”?  At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity.  When I watched it, between tears (I’m a complete softie) I…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

Episode 357

As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation.

Well, today’…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

Episode 356

Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care.  Our guests are all trained in critical care: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, and Jaspal …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Psilocybin in Serious Illness: A Podcast with James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

Episode 355

We’ve covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine, and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theor…

Published on 4 months ago

HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

Peter Selwyn, one of today’s guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years.  In that time, care of people with HIV has changed dramatically.  Initially, there was no treatment,…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago