Best Heartfailure Podcasts (2026)

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PREVENT in East Asia: Can One Risk Score Fit All? | JACC Baran 37:15

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD welcome Prof. Kosuke Inoue (Kyoto University) and Dr. Yuichiro Mori (Kyoto University) to discuss their JACC Brief Report, "Evaluation of the PREVENT Equations in a Nationwide Cohort of 7.7 Million Korean Adults." Using one of the world's largest national health databases, the study externally valida…

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"Just One Drink?" Think Again — Blood Pressure Says Bye to Alcohol | JACC Baran 34:38

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, welcome Dr. Takahiro Suzuki to discuss his JACC paper, "Blood Pressure After Changes in Light-to-Moderate Alcohol Consumption in Women and Men: Longitudinal Japanese Annual Checkup Analysis." Using a two-cohort design—cessation among habitual drinkers and initiation among nondrinkers—the study demonstra…

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Is Attending to Clinician Distress Our Job? Sara Johnson, Yael Schenker, & Anne Kelly 49:02

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Have you had one of those consults in which you're thinking, huh, sounds like the patient's goals are clear, it's really that the clinician consulting us disagrees with those goals? To what extent is it our job as consultants to navigate, manage, or attend to clinician distress? What happens when that clinician distress leads eventually to conflict…

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CT-Based Plaque Norms: Rethinking Risk in Healthy Adults | JACC Baran 29:00

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD welcome Dr. Keishi Ichikawa, MD (Lundquist Institute at Harbor–UCLA) to discuss his JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging study from the Miami Heart Study, defining the population norms of coronary plaque using AI-based coronary CT angiography. In 2,301 asymptomatic adults, AI detected plaq…

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Rehab and Death in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint 49:21

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In this week's podcast, we sit down with Drs. Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint, three authors of the recent Journal of the American Geriatrics Society article, "Rehab and Death: Improving End-of-Life Care for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Beneficiaries." The authors dive into the challenges facing seriously ill older adults disch…

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Leave Nothing Behind: The Current and Future of Drug-Coated Balloons in PCI | JACC Baran 38:43

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Nobuhiro Ikemura, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD welcome Prof. Yoshinobu Onuma (University of Galway)—Last Author of the ARC Position Statement—along with guest commentators Prof. Ken Kozuma (Teikyo University) and Dr. Taku Asano (St. Luke's International Hospital) to discuss the evolving role of drug-coated balloons (DCBs) in…

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Inflammaging: Brian Andonian, Sara LaHue, Joe Hippensteel 50:51

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Six years ago we had John Newman on GeriPal to talk about Geroscience (Song choice Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen, perfect selection). John explained the basics of geroscience, what is it, what are the key theories in geroscience, what is senescence, why people who provide clinical care for older adults should care about geroscience, and potent…

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A Global Look at Heart Disease: What the GBD Study Reveals | JACC Baran 31:09

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD welcome Prof. Shuhei Nomura, PhD (Tohoku University) for an in-depth discussion of the landmark JACC Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2023 analysis, covering data from 204 countries and territories. Dr. Nomura, a leading member of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) coll…

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Ten Seconds That Matter: Clinical Frailty Scale in Heart Failure | JACC Baran 29:21

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, and Nobuhiro Ikemura, MD, welcome Dr. Taisuke Nakade (Juntendo University) and Dr. Yuya Matsue (Juntendo University) to discuss how a simple Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) captures multidimensional vulnerability and predicts outcomes in heart failure. Drawing on 3,905 patients (mean age 73 years) from the nationwide JROAD-H…

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The Chaplain and the Doctor: A Podcast with Betty Clark and Jessica Zitter 46:17

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In this week's episode, we delve into the powerful documentary The Chaplain and The Doctor with two extraordinary guests: Betty Clark, the chaplain at the heart of the film, and Dr. Jessica Zitter, the physician and filmmaker who brought this story to the screen. The film provides a deeply moving look into the ways personal stories and biases shape…

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When MRI Falls Short: ICE Identifies Arrhythmogenic Scars | JACC Baran 36:10

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, Nobuhiro Ikemura and Satoshi Shoji, MD, welcome Naohiko Sahara, MD (Toho University Ohashi Medical Center) to discuss his JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology study on intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) for detecting periaortic ventricular tachycardia substrate. In a multimodality core lab analysis, Dr. Sa…

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A Strategic Path Forward for Hospice & Palliative Care: Ira Byock, Kristi Newport, Brynn Bowman 53:05

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In June of 2025, hospice and palliative care pioneer Ira Byock published a white paper outlining the urgent challenges facing the field today. In a nutshell, he expressed concerns that the quality of hospice care in the United States has become highly variable, with disturbing frequency of unethical practices and avaricious owners. He also raised c…

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SimPub at AHA 2025 | JACC Baran 57:35

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, and Nobuhiro Ikemura, MD, highlight JACC Simultaneous Publications from the AHA 2025 Scientific Sessions, featuring three impactful clinical trials: (1) Effect of Aficamten vs. Metoprolol on Patient-Reported Health Status in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, (2) Sacubitril/Valsartan vs. Enalapril…

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Palliative Care in Sickle Cell: Craig Blinderman, Stephanie Kiser, Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa 47:58

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Today's topic on palliative care for sickle cell disease may raise eyebrows with some of you. You might think, wait, now we're doing sickle cell? On top of liquid cancer and transplant, kidney disease, liver disease, and survivorship? Where does it end? Do we have staff for all of this? Well I implore you, dear listeners, to keep an open mind and l…

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TAVR, von Willebrand Factor, and Bleeding: Refining High Bleeding Risk with CT-ADP | JACC Baran 27:49

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Host Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, welcome Dr. Shinnosuke Kikuchi, MD of Yokohama City University Medical Center to discuss how closure time–ADP (CT-ADP) refines bleeding risk after TAVR beyond VARC-HBR criteria. Based on data from 884 patients in the Strasbourg TAVR registry, the study (JACC: Cardiovasc Interv. 2025; doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2025.08.011) showed …

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Medical Billing and Coding in Geriatrics: Peter Hollmann, Ken Koncilja, and Audrey Chun 43:36

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Last month, the "Billing Boys"—Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers—joined the GeriPal podcast to demystify medical billing and coding in palliative care. This month, we're back with part two, shifting the focus to geriatrics. While billing and coding may not be the most exciting topic, they're essential for ensuring fair reimbursement for the complex care…

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Primetime for Cardiovascular AI: The PRIME 2.0 Checklist Explained | JACC Baran 33:35

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Hosts Dr. Mitsuaki Sawano, Dr. Kentaro Ejiri, and Dr. Satoshi Shoji welcome Dr. Nobuyuki Kagiyama of Juntendo University and Dr. Shinichi Goto of Tokai University to discuss PRIME 2.0: An Update to the Proposed Requirements for Cardiovascular Imaging–Related Machine Learning Evaluation Checklist, recently published in JACC. Building on the original…

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Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman 49:55

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I'm going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield & Jason Wasserman. This quote illustrates the tension between the widely held view in bioethics that slow codes are unethical, and the complexity of real world hospital practice: "Decisive moral positions are easy to come by when sitting …

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Frailty Across the Spectrum of Ejection Fraction | JACC Baran 35:47

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD, welcome Drs. Kensuke Ueno (The University of Tokyo), Kentaro Kamiya (Kitasato University), and Tetsuya Takahashi (Juntendo University) to discuss the role of frailty in shaping cardiovascular versus noncardiovascular mortality across left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) subty…

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GeriPal Live! at NPCRC Foley Retreat: Dio Kavalieratos, Prasanna Ananth, Alexi Wright 57:41

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This is the second GeriPal podcast we've recorded live using this format, see this link to our prior podcast at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) meeting in Philadelphia. Also look for our upcoming podcast recorded live from the São Paulo Geriatrics & Gerontology Congress, click here to register. Today we join you from beautiful Banff, A…

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Patient Journeys of Angina: What ISCHEMIA Tells Us | JACC Baran 31:06

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Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, Shun Kohsaka, MD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, and Satoshi Shoji, MD, welcome Dr. Nobuhiro Ikemura of Tachikawa Hospital, formerly of Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute to discuss trajectories of angina following initial invasive versus conservative strategies for chronic coronary disease. Dr. Ikemura provides expert commenta…

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GeriPal Live! at CAPC: Karen Bullock, Kim Curseen, Matt Gonzales 1:03:25

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Eric and I had the pleasure of doing a GeriPal Live! Podcast as the closing keynote for the recent Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) National Assembly in Philadelphia PA. For this podcast, we invited 3 guests to each select an article of interest to them, and engage in a discussion about the article, including questions from the CAPC attende…

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PREVENT in East Asia: Can One Risk Score Fit All? | JACC Baran 37:15

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"Just One Drink?" Think Again — Blood Pressure Says Bye to Alcohol | JACC Baran 34:38

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Is Attending to Clinician Distress Our Job? Sara Johnson, Yael Schenker, & Anne Kelly 49:02

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CT-Based Plaque Norms: Rethinking Risk in Healthy Adults | JACC Baran 29:00

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Rehab and Death in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint 49:21

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Leave Nothing Behind: The Current and Future of Drug-Coated Balloons in PCI | JACC Baran 38:43

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Inflammaging: Brian Andonian, Sara LaHue, Joe Hippensteel 50:51

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A Global Look at Heart Disease: What the GBD Study Reveals | JACC Baran 31:09

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Ten Seconds That Matter: Clinical Frailty Scale in Heart Failure | JACC Baran 29:21

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The Chaplain and the Doctor: A Podcast with Betty Clark and Jessica Zitter 46:17

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When MRI Falls Short: ICE Identifies Arrhythmogenic Scars | JACC Baran 36:10

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A Strategic Path Forward for Hospice & Palliative Care: Ira Byock, Kristi Newport, Brynn Bowman 53:05

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SimPub at AHA 2025 | JACC Baran 57:35

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Palliative Care in Sickle Cell: Craig Blinderman, Stephanie Kiser, Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa 47:58

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TAVR, von Willebrand Factor, and Bleeding: Refining High Bleeding Risk with CT-ADP | JACC Baran 27:49

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Medical Billing and Coding in Geriatrics: Peter Hollmann, Ken Koncilja, and Audrey Chun 43:36

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Primetime for Cardiovascular AI: The PRIME 2.0 Checklist Explained | JACC Baran 33:35

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Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman 49:55

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Frailty Across the Spectrum of Ejection Fraction | JACC Baran 35:47

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GeriPal Live! at NPCRC Foley Retreat: Dio Kavalieratos, Prasanna Ananth, Alexi Wright 57:41

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Patient Journeys of Angina: What ISCHEMIA Tells Us | JACC Baran 31:06

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GeriPal Live! at CAPC: Karen Bullock, Kim Curseen, Matt Gonzales 1:03:25

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From Pixels to Precision: AI in Echocardiography | JACC Baran 41:40

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Heart Failure in Japan's Oldest-Old: A Super-Aging Challenge | JACC Baran 27:26

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Pre-Operative Geri Assessment: Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan 43:49

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CHIPping the Code: Clonal Hematopoiesis and CV Outcomes | JACC Baran 36:41

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What Makes a Good Death? Karen Steinhauser, Rasa Mikelyte, Edison Vidal 48:50