The Med List

With care personalization and patient choice growing in health care, it is important for health care professionals with different training to know the skills and knowledge of various health professions. How do they do this and what is being improved to help patients receive better care? Join us and our expert guest, Stephanie Conway-Allen , to discuss educating the team.

So many things can make a drug a logical choice for one patient, but not another. What about something that impacts every cell in our body and is makes s all unique, our genetics? Join us and expert guest, Lusia Fomuso PharmD, MPH, CPGX , a TEDx speaker and pharmacist, as we talk about the opportunities and limitations.

Sometimes medicine doesn't move quickly enough or have incentives to study a new use for an existing medication. Though off-label prescribing can introduce effective treatment options, this practice is not without issues. Join us and our expert guest, Jeannette Wick, to examine insights on Gabapentin and Trazodone issues overuse.

We hear the word quality care and you may have heard of quality improvement or quality metrics, but when that word, "quality", is used it can mean several things that impact the care being delivered and received. Join us and expert guest, Nicholas Dorich , as we jump into a conversation about how quality drives healthcare.

Lots of factors go into retirement planning, but what about your patient’s or your own med cabinet? Join us & our expert guest, Nicole Brandt , pharmacist & geriatric thought leader, as we discuss national efforts to keep seniors in their home.

Getting the most out of your medical benefits seems like a given, but patients often skip & avoid physical therapy. What can we do to improve our use of this valuable specialty? Join Kevin Walker, PharmD , Donna Bartlett , and our expert guest, Heidi Moyer, PT, DPT to discuss her insights as a physical therapist.

Diseases that are not "curable" and end of life treatment decisions are subjects that "we" try to avoid. Emotions are part of that, but another is confusion around what our medical system has to offer. Join us and expert guest, Andy Arwari MD MS FACP SFHM FAAHPM HMDC , a hospice & palliative medicine board-certified physician, to give you more clarity and comfort around the...

Getting your med list right can require lifestyle changes & sometimes we make “resolutions” to make those happen. As we all know, “resolutions” can hit bumps. Join us and expert guest and clinical exercise physiologist, Janet Huehls, MS, ACEM-CEP, CHWC , to help you avoid those bumps or get you back on track.

As the health system continues to evolve and our population ages we are seeing families have to navigate not only medical care, but the entire caregiving process. It often times is a struggle. Please join us and our guest, a recognized leader in caregiver and aging community advocacy, Nicole Will. We will dive into tips, navigation aids, and what patients and clinicians need to know about caregivi...

When you hear acupuncture, what do you think of? Needles? "Alternative" medicine? Join us and our expert guest, Bernadette Eichas, a nurse with significant acupuncture training, to explore the benefits and the role of this therapy.

The US is the only large country that allows advertising and promoting drugs directly to patients. Learn why that matters and how that is regulated as Donna Bartlett and Kevin Walker interview industry & regulatory expert, Susanne Steiner, MBA .

Prescribing and deprescribing are not simply addition and subtraction. This can be frustrating for patients and for clinicians, especially when evidence of success is lacking or questionable in either direction. Join Donna & Kevin and to take a deeper look at the relationship between deprescribing and prescribing and how you can tilt the equation in your favor.

During the last months, weeks, and days of life for our family, friends, and patients, perspectives change. Those perspectives also change when talking about medication use. Join Donna Bartlett , Kevin Walker , and expert guest Veronica Riera-Gilley , a pharmacist focused on food as medicine and navigating patients through living, aging, and dying.

Should we start exercising to decrease the number of medications we need or decrease the number of medications we are on to help us increase or exercising? Join Donna Bartlett & Kevin Walker, PharmD and their expert guest, Janet Huehls, MS , clinical exercise physiologist, to learn more!

We often think of large pharmaceutical companies having only one goal, have more people take more drugs, but that is not always true. Join Kevin Walker, PharmD and Donna Bartlett as we discuss some foundational topics surrounding the drug formulary and these specific situations with industry expert, Dr. Raymond John Veronneau Jr, PharmD, MBA , Senior Medical Science Liaison.

Join Donna Bartlett & Kevin Walker, PharmD as they uncover opportunities & barriers to optimizing a medication list during admission and after discharge from the hospital. We have hospital pharmacist and associate professor of pharmacy practice at MCPHS University, Dr. Jayne Lepage, coming on the show to give us her expert insights.

The Med List is proudly sponsored by Cedar Lake Health & Wellhood Publishing.