Penn Primary Care Podcast

Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE,Alison Purcell, MSN, CRNP, and Matthew Rusk, MD, lead an interactive discussion on hypertension.

Depression and anxiety are common in primary care and primary care physicians manage them regularly. In the Penn system, a collaborative care model known as Penn Integrated Care (PIC) allows for collaboration between mental health providers and primary care physicians.  In this podcast, we discuss this model with Dr Joseph Teel and Dr Eleanor Anderson, a psychiatrist. We also review the fundamentals of the management of depression in primary care.

Kendal Williams, MD, MPH, is joined by Rani Nandiwanda, MD, and Anastassia Amaro, MD, the medical director of the Obesity and Metabolic Center at Penn Medicine, to discuss the primary care management of obesity. They review both dietary approaches and the latest pharmacological options for obesity.

In this episode, Kendal Williams, MD, MPH, is joined by Infectious Disease physicians Steve Gluckman, MD, and Kathleen Degnan, MD. We answer common questions patients are asking us about COVID and particularly deal with the issue of risk and how to manage risk in the rapidly changing pandemic landscape.

Penn Medicine internist Kendal Williams, MD, MPH, and Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE, discuss common patient experiences and observations of Hypertension with Alison Purcell, MSN, CRNP.

Internist and host Amber-Nicole Bird, MD, reviews two common osteoporosis case studies with internist Deepa Rani Nandiwada, MD, and endocrinologist Mona Al Mukaddam, MD, MS.

Internist Kendal Williams, MD, MPH, discuss common questions and management practices of Type 2 Diabetes at Penn Medicine with three guests: Internist Amber-Nicole Bird, MD; Endocrinologist Carrie Burns MD; and Endocrinologist Christina Mitchell, MD.

In the inaugural episode, internist Kendal Williams, MD, MPH, explores the pandemic's current state for primary care providers. He reviews post-COVID care at Penn Medicine with three guests: Internist Jeffrey Howard Millstein, MD, infectious disease specialist, Stephen J. Gluckman, MD, and physiatrist Benjamin Abramoff, MD.