This week our guests Adele Ojeda and Dr. Stephen Martin share their experiences caring for patients with OUD in the primary care setting.

This week we have a reprise episode with Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips joins us to talk about a recent publication in JAMA IM that he wrote with a number of collaborators including other Center for Primary Care faculty, entitled: Association of Primary Care Physician Supply With Population Mortality in the United States, 2005-2015.

Dr. Margot Kushel joins us this week to discuss the health effects associated with homelessness.

Dr. Steven Woolf joins us this week to talk about his work improving our understanding of the increasing death rates among mid-life Americans.

Christopher Morley joins us this week to talk about prior authorizations, or PAs – a bureaucratic headache well known to anyone in primary care in which a physician’s office must complete additional paperwork or phone calls to a patient’s insurance company in order to get a medication or procedure covered by the insurance. This used to be a fairly rare occurrence, but it has dramatically increased in frequency over the last 20 years or so. Dr. Morley set out with some colleagues to try to quantify how much the PA process may cost, and moreover, to help us all think about who pays those costs in reality – ultimately, it is our patients.

Stacey Chang joins us today to talk about design in medicine and how we can use design thinking as a tool to improve healthcare.

What happens when a medical complex young person turns 18, and then, suddenly, they make their own medical decisions rather than their parents? How does one navigate the sometimes very thorny issues of sexual health and fertility? What about insurance issues?

In this reprise episode, Michelle Kondo and Eugenia South join us to talk about their research looking at how neighborhood contexts impact health and safety in urban environments, and their recent publication in JAMA Network Open looking at the relationship between neighborhood greening and mental health.

This week, we are joined by Allison Hess, VP of Health for the Steele Institute for Innovation at Geisinger to talk about Geisinger’s Fresh Food Farmacy, a program that provides food insecure patients with poorly controlled diabetes access to fresh healthy foods as part of a comprehensive diabetes care plan.

This week, we are joined by Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips joins us to talk about a recent publication in JAMA IM that he wrote with a number of collaborators including other Center for Primary Care faculty, entitled: Association of Primary Care Physician Supply With Population Mortality in the United States, 2005-2015.

This week, we have two amazing guests, Cheryl Pritlove and Elizabeth Metraux. They are joining us to talk about gender disparities in medicine.

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck.

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck.

Utibe Essien, a Health Equity researcher, primary care physician in the VA Pittsburgh Health System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine joins us this week. Dr. Essien studies racial disparities in healthcare, and recently published a major study in JAMA Cardiology, demonstrating significant racial disparities in the management of atrial fibrillation.

This week, we have a very special collaborative show with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s podcast, This Week in Health. We are featuring perspectives on gun violence from the trauma bay of the emergency room with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway.

This week, Thomas Kim, David Rosenthal, and Audrey Provenzano bring you a journal club episode.

Difficulty accessing medical records can be extremely difficult, which we explore today with two guests: Ilana Yurkiewicz and Carolyn Lye.

In this reprise episode, our guests are Sarah Dauber, Ph.D & Lindsey Vuolo JD, MPH of Center on Addiction, a science-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to end addiction. They join us to discuss policies that affect how pregnant women with substance use disorders may or may not access care and how we can better align policy with evidence-based care of women with substance use disorders.

Our guest this week is Dr. Mark Friedberg. Mark’s research covers a range of topics but focuses in particular on quality measurement and pay for performance. He joins us today to talk about his work, and in particular an exhaustive report he recently published with colleagues from RAND and also the AMA, looking at the effects of alternative payment models on the practice of medicine in the US, a follow up study from work initially done in 2014.

In this reprise series on the care of pregnant women with substance use disorders, Landrey Fagan and Pat Lee join us to talk about their experience forming their team called the Sunflower team at Lynn Community Health Center, which provides full-spectrum care for women suffering from SUDs during and after pregnancy in an effort to reduce stigma, reduce fragmentation of care, and keep women engaged in care throughout their pregnancy, delivery, and in the post-partum period.