by Ileana Balcu | Nov 23, 2019 |
As I was volunteering for SPM, it took years to learn its history and understand where we are, how the Society got created, and why it is what it is. This is not a historical well-documented history of SPM, it’s my imperfect interpretation of its history. Doc Tom... 
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 20, 2019 |
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn makes a compelling argument at how important it is to think about all aspects of health, not just the healthcare system in her most recent blog post: Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the... 
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 15, 2019 |
My painting teacher, Wes Sherman, calls himself a conservator. He shares paintings, pictures, and tidbits of art history with special attention to artists that inspire him. I learned so much from a year of tidbits shared on Instagram. As I was driving back from the... by Ileana Balcu | Jun 19, 2017 |
Lawrence “Larry” Weed (born December 1923, died June 3, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records.... by Ileana Balcu | Jun 8, 2017 |
Eric Topol published a Commentary on Medscape describing a study published in JAMA in which cancer patients that tracked 12 symptoms and shared the tracking results with their health teams had a five months increase in survival equivalent with some of the most... 
by Ileana Balcu | May 16, 2017 |
This is a guest blog post by Allie Davanzo. Allie was my student in the New Media and Health Communication class I taught at TCNJ. More about the class is shared in this post. Allie Davanzo is a sophomore Public Health major at The College of New Jersey who hopes to... 
by Ileana Balcu | Feb 11, 2017 |
This is a post by SPM Board Member John Hoben – Business Development Director at Bio-Optronics. Hoben’s passion is reconfiguring medical industrial complex assets and transactions from sickness response to true preventive delivery. This entails focusing on... by Ileana Balcu | Jan 10, 2017 |
Member Angela Lundberg’s blog article was just published for RheumatoidArthritis.net. It discusses the high out-of-pocket costs of health insurance for people who already have insurance. Health Insurance & RA: Dangerously Uncovered Besides the benefits she... 
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 23, 2016 |
Coming from Romania 15 years ago, Thanksgiving was not a big thing for me. I didn’t quite grasp the holiday. My husband cooked and celebrated, and I helped and observed it in a detached way. 11 years ago, it was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I was 22 weeks... by Ileana Balcu | Sep 29, 2016 |
Beautiful and comprehensive blog post from Regina Holliday about different types of patient advocates, the evolution of the patient as speaker, consumer, policy-igniter and her own work....
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