Veterans Health Administration

Veterans’ Health Matters

Health EN ↓ 30 episodes

Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, as well as historic deployments in multiple eras, have resulted in Veterans with a range of post deployment health concerns and the need for providers to understand these concerns and utilize best practices in the identification, assessment, management, and communication of Veteran care. Veterans with complex medical conditions may benefit from a patient centered approach that is rooted in whole health and functional and integrative medicine. Veterans’ Health Matters, a new podcast series sponsored by the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC...

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Episodes

Gut Function and Health 22.09.2020 22:40

Gut Function and Health We welcome back Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, Dr. Serena Satcher, and Paulette Brower, as they explore how increased intestinal permeability also known as leaky gut syndrome negatively affects Veterans’ health by promoting chronic inflammation, compromising immunity, and resulting in other medical issues. They explore how utilizing what is referred to as the 4 R’s may be helpful in...

Tackling Chronic Inflammation 08.09.2020 11:31

VA Whole Health and Functional Medicine Approaches for Managing Chronic Inflammation Dr. Serena Satcher, Integrative and Functional Medicine physician with the NJ WRIISC, examines how Chronic Inflammation - a consequence of military exposures and lifestyle factors - may manifest as disease and impact overall health. This discussion is moderated by Paulette Brower. To learn more about Whole Health,...

Toxic Exposures and Gut Health 25.08.2020 19:12

Environmental Exposures & Gastrointestinal Health of Veterans Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, Clinical Director of the NJ WRIISC sits down with our moderator Paulette Brower, at the WRIISC, to highlight common types of health conditions experienced by Veterans of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its environmental exposures impacts upon gastrointestinal health. Learn more on post deployment health...

Improving Patient Provider Communication 11.08.2020 16:27

What’s Wrong with me? Creating a Shared Understanding to Improve Communication Dr. Susan Santos and Dr. Lisa McAndrew discuss how to improve communication by develop a shared understanding and treatment plan with Patients when there is no easy answer for their complex medical or exposure concerns. For more information on developing a shared understanding you visit: The War Related Illness & Injury...

Difficult Patient/Provider Conversation 28.07.2020 17:10

Improving Communication Between Patients and Providers around Difficult or Sensitive Topics The inaugural episode of Veteran Health Matters, WRIISC’s Dr. Susan Santos, Director of Education & Risk Communication, and Dr. Lisa McAndrew, Director of Research address known difficulties in Communicating with Patients when there is no easy answer for their complex medical or exposure concerns. RESOURCES...