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The Secretary of the VA announced the Understand Your Diabetes Numbers Campaign to ensure that every Veteran understands their numbers in order to manage their diabetes, to be safe and, ultimately, to achieve their personal goals—both today and over their lifetime. To expand on this important concept, these podcasts, produced by VHA clinicians who work with Veterans to manage their diabetes, are developed to highlight the important issue of numeracy in diabetes, among other important diabetes-related concepts. Listeners can expect to hear from providers within a wide array of disciplines and...

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 (...

Welcome to the VA podcast series, “Let’s Talk Virtual Care” A podcast dedicated to amplifying strong practices in implementation and expansion of virtual tools for our Nation’s Veterans. In each episode, board certified Internal Medicine Physician, Director, Virtual Care Integration, Dr. Maia Carter from the Office of Primary Care, talks to formal and informal leaders about how virtual tools can be leveraged to help provide the soonest and best care to Veterans. Join us and tune in for strong virtual care practices packaged in small digestible bites. Be sure to subscribe to the ...

The Work Life Lab Series is a monthly podcast featuring best-selling authors and national thought leaders who volunteer their time to provide insight and inspiration for our listeners. Episodes in this series revolve around personal and professional development, with each presenter and topic especially curated to provide listeners with the know-how to improve their interactions in their career and in their everyday lives.

These are the audio only recordings of C20. C20 is a live, interactive webinar hosted by Dr. Chad “Chai” Kessler, VA’s National Director for Emergency Medicine. It brings together the VA community through discussions about clinical and health care issues facing Veterans and topics related to VA employee wellness, growth and retention. The webinar features subject matter experts, VA leaders, and frontline staff who offer insights that help those who support our Veterans, As Chai Chad likes to say "With love, light, and a mug of chai, we aim to give our frontline healthcare employees a ...