Geriatrician, health services researcher, mom and lover of all things primary care and geriatrics.

Joined July 2013
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Healing relationships are the missing ingredient in US healthcare--patients & professionals benefit when relationships prioritized. #EHR #burnout #joyinmedicine The Patient and The Practitioner in the Age of Technology: Promoting Healing Relationships cme-learning.brown.edu/Promo…

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I haven't even started my @NHATS_NSOC workshop and already am learning so much! For example, I just learned about this amazing resource for images!!! They even have age-positive icons!!! ageingbetter.resourcespace.c… #foreverstudent #freeresource #Geriatrics #research

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Rather than immediate care needs at the time of disease onset, the spending associated with a clinical diagnosis of dementia may reflect a health care crisis, during which the dementia is recognized as a contributing factor. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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"Egregious" & shameful disparities in dementia dx, care, & research for Black/Hispanic older adults, who are MOST impacted. Could we PLEASE spend $50k/yr/person getting these vulnerable older adults good care, & shelve 'mabs til this is fixed?? @halima_amjad at #AGS22
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@halima_amjad emphasizing what people who care for older adults can to address issues and of access and marginalization in dementia care. #AGS22 @AmerGeriatrics
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Replying to @AGSJournal
@AGSJournal New Editorial Board members in the house!!! @halima_amjad @NothelleSteph & me - Women Geri Docs at the table! Thx @AlexSmithMD !!!! #AGS22 @AmerGeriatrics
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How common are chronic medications changed during acute hospitalizations among older adults? Great work by @TimAndersonMD presenting @nu_pepper Grand Rounds. @NMGeriatrics
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When a patient requests to drink cold ice water before removing high-flow nasal cannula (to withdraw life support), that will be the last one in his life. - Don't thicken it. - Make sure he gets what he wants. - Don't ask anybody. It won't take long. Go get it by yourself.
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4 Aug 2017
Honored to have met these brilliant women this week! @BWScholars2017 x.com/BWScholars2017/status/…

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4 Aug 2017
Many caregivers also suffer from social isolation nyti.ms/2uqnBgz

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20yr gap in life expectancy a few streets apart in Baltimore. HANDLS cohort to study #healthdisparities Michele Evans @BWScholars2017
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Thanks for the inspiration, I am resurrecting my twitter account! @JasonFlattUCSF @BWScholars2017
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31 Oct 2014
Thanks all, this was fun! #meded
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31 Oct 2014
T3: Faculty can help residents navigate the politics they may not understand which can serve as barriers #meded
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31 Oct 2014
T3 @m_dattalo agreed! Faculty clinic leaders are key! #meded
31 Oct 2014
T3: Helping trainees turn complaints about the system into projects and help them identify the first step and who to talk to #meded
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31 Oct 2014
T2 major challenge is schedule, residents have stressed fragmented schedules need partners to carry the project forward #meded
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31 Oct 2014
#meded The way I looked at every patient changed after my home visit, it was so important that it was early in my training
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#meded @mmteacher to be honest it wasn't that much extra time and the yield of learning was much greater than any typical encounter