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GeriatRx, Atlanta, GA (2026)

03/26/2026

She was prescribed 22 medications.
No one stopped to ask if she still needed them.

A retired nurse in her 70s came in with severe fatigue, confusion, and frequent falls.

Over time, her medication list kept growing.
Multiple providers.
New symptoms.
More prescriptions layered on top.

At some point, what we call treatment becomes the problem.

What looked like "decline” was actually medication harm.

This wasn’t an exception.
This is happening every day.

Within weeks of deprescribing:

Her medications were reduced from 22 to 12
Cognitive clarity returned
Falls stopped
No hospitalizations over the next 6 months
Over $6,500 saved annually on medications

And the part that stays with me most:

“Deprescribing changed everything. I got my mom back.”

We’ve gotten very good at prescribing.
We’ve never been trained to undo it.

That gap is costing patients their independence.

Have you seen a patient like this?

Because this is exactly what we’re seeing more and more.

And it’s why we’re breaking down how to approach deprescribing safely and confidently in our upcoming webinar.

03/20/2026

A prescription from 2014 is still being taken in 2026.

No one reviewed it.
No one questioned it.
No one stopped it.

And this is happening every day.

Here’s what should make you pause:

Over 40% of older adults take 5 or more medications
Nearly 1 in 5 are on something that may no longer be appropriate
Medication-related harm drives up to 30% of hospital visits

This is not rare.
This is normal.

Most medications are started for a moment.
A diagnosis.
A hospital stay.
A symptom.

But almost none are intentionally stopped.

So they stay.

Year after year.
Stacking.
Interacting.
Changing how the body functions.

Until the side effects start to look like aging.

Fatigue
Dizziness
Memory loss
Falls

And instead of asking why,
we add another medication.

That’s the system.

Just because a medication has been prescribed for 10 years
does not mean it should continue for 10 more.

If you’ve ever looked at a medication list and thought
“Why am I still taking this?”

You’re asking the right question.

The real question is
who is responsible for answering it?

03/19/2026

A month ago, I was in a rut with LinkedIn.

Posting felt forced.
Engagement felt inconsistent.
And honestly, it was easy to question if it was even worth it.

But I committed to showing up anyway.

Not perfectly. Just consistently.

And something started to shift.

Not just in likes or comments, but in real life.

Every week now, someone stops me.
At an event. In passing. After a conversation.

Last week, someone stopped me and said,
“I’ve been feeling stuck… but your post reminded me I’m not the only one figuring it out.”

They say things like
“I needed that post.”
“That hit home.”
“That gave me a push to keep going.”

That’s when it clicked.

This was never about the algorithm.

It’s about impact.

GeriatRx was built to help older adults through deprescribing and to equip clinicians to better serve them.

But as we’ve grown, it’s become clear that the mission reaches further.

We’re not just improving care.
We’re helping people think differently.
We’re helping people keep going.

And that matters more than any metric.

Because when you realize your words can shift someone’s day, their mindset, or even their direction…

You don’t stop.

If something we’ve shared has impacted you in any way, big or small, we’d love to hear it.

And if it wasn’t us, tell us who did.

Let’s give those people their flowers.

Today, we’re celebrating the ability to inspire and assist.

03/18/2026

“I wouldn’t feed a dog this food.”

That’s what a nursing home resident told a Senate committee this week.

This wasn’t a one-off complaint.

Residents described:
    •    moldy food and unsafe living conditions
    •    broken systems preventing access to care
    •    hours-long waits for basic needs
    •    fear of retaliation for speaking up

So the real question becomes:

👉🏽 If this were your parent, how confident would you feel in the system working as intended?

Because oversight in healthcare is fragmented.

Care is fragmented.
Communication is fragmented.
Medication management is fragmented.

And when no one is looking at the full picture…

Things fall through the cracks.

This week in Baltimore at the CMS conference, we had multiple conversations around quality, outcomes, and accountability.

But improvement doesn’t happen at the policy level alone.

It happens at the patient level.

At the medication list.
At the care plan.
At the moment someone finally asks,
“Does all of this still make sense together?”

Most families assume:
“If it was prescribed, it must be necessary.”

But what we see every day tells a different story.

Medications added over time.
Different specialists not communicating.
Side effects treated with more medications.

That’s how you end up with:
    •    falls
    •    confusion
    •    hospital visits
    •    declining quality of life

Because better questions lead to better care.

And better care is what every family deserves.

03/18/2026

“I wouldn’t feed a dog this food.”

That’s what a nursing home resident told a Senate committee this week.

This wasn’t a one-off complaint.

Residents described:
• moldy food and unsafe living conditions
• broken systems preventing access to care
• hours-long waits for basic needs
• fear of retaliation for speaking up

So the real question becomes:

👉🏽 If this were your parent, how confident would you feel in the system working as intended?

Because oversight in healthcare is fragmented.

Care is fragmented.
Communication is fragmented.
Medication management is fragmented.

And when no one is looking at the full picture…

Things fall through the cracks.

This week in Baltimore at the CMS conference, we had multiple conversations around quality, outcomes, and accountability.

But improvement doesn’t happen at the policy level alone.

It happens at the patient level.

At the medication list.
At the care plan.
At the moment someone finally asks,
“Does all of this still make sense together?”

Most families assume:
“If it was prescribed, it must be necessary.”

But what we see every day tells a different story.

Medications added over time.
Different specialists not communicating.
Side effects treated with more medications.

That’s how you end up with:
• falls
• confusion
• hospital visits
• declining quality of life

Because better questions lead to better care.

And better care is what every family deserves.

03/17/2026

Most people don’t grow their career by taking a $40,000 pay cut.

I did.

After burning out as a pharmacy manager, I walked away from stability and stepped into something I didn’t even know existed at the time: Poison Control Pharmacist.

I relocated to Charlotte and joined the North Carolina Poison Control Center.

Every call was high stakes.

Kids swallowing household items.
Farmers exposed to toxic chemicals.
Patients experiencing life-threatening overdoses.

There was no time to guess.

We had to quickly assess symptoms, identify the cause, and guide clinicians, ER teams, and families on what to do next.

Then 2020 hit.

The calls shifted almost overnight.

Poisonings slowed.
COVID took over.

We worked alongside state epidemiologists, helping assess risk, guide testing, and support decisions during one of the most uncertain times in healthcare.

Because underneath every call was the same pattern:

Symptoms without clear answers.
Medications complicating the picture.
Decisions being made without a full view.

That’s where my focus sharpened.

Understanding when a medication is helping… and when it’s contributing to the problem.

This week at the CMS conference, those same gaps showed up again—just on a larger scale.

Medication overload.
Fragmented decision-making.
Missed opportunities to prevent harm before it starts.

GeriatRx was built to close that gap.

Not from theory.

From experience in the moments where decisions matter most.

03/16/2026

I remember 2009 extremely well.

The economy was still reeling from the housing crisis, and I was finishing my Chemistry degree at Emory with no clear idea what came next.

After years of grinding through one of the best experiences of my life in Atlanta, I walked away with a degree, a mountain of student debt, and one big question:

What now?

I took a gap year after graduating because after surviving Emory, I needed time to breathe. Anyone who remembers being broke right after college and trying to figure out the next move probably knows that feeling well.

I was living off campus in North Decatur and struggling to find work. Eventually, I ended up back at Six Flags, my old high school job.

That led to another opportunity.

I started working at Turner Field for the Atlanta Braves selling snow cones and cotton candy, and it ended up being one of the best jobs I have ever had.

Running up and down that stadium kept me in the best shape of my life. I met incredible people. And most importantly, it helped me save enough money to move to Chapel Hill for
pharmacy school.

But Turner Field was far from Plan A.

Honestly, it barely qualified as Plan D.

Before that, I had tried to teach English abroad in Korea, Taiwan, and China. I got denied every time. One program even responded with words I will never forget, telling me they had to deny my application because I was not of European descent.
Infuriating, but I kept moving.

I managed my brother’s DJ career in Atlanta and helped him book gigs across the city.

I worked as a nightclub bouncer. Do not recommend.

I went back to tutoring SAT and ACT math as a Kaplan instructor.

Eventually, Turner Field became Plan F.

And ironically, Plan F was the one that worked.

It paid the bills.
It gave me flexibility.
And it gave me enough room to take the next step toward pharmacy school.

Looking back, that season taught me something I still carry with me today.

A meaningful career is rarely built in a straight line.

Sometimes it is built through rejection.
Sometimes it is built through survival jobs.
Sometimes it is built by doing what is necessary while keeping sight of what is possible.

That perspective has shaped how I lead and why the work we are building at GeriatRx means so much to me.

Many older adults and families are navigating uncertainty too. They are dealing with complex medication regimens, hard decisions, unexpected setbacks, and healthcare systems that can feel overwhelming to face alone.

At , our mission is to help people navigate that complexity with clarity, support, and confidence.

Resilience matters in business.
Resilience matters in life.
And resilience matters in healthcare.

Success is rarely about having the perfect plan.
Oftentimes success is simply a game of resilience.

03/13/2026

Most people think leadership is about doing more.

More hours.
More responsibility.
More pressure.
More decisions.

Early in your career, that mindset makes sense. Your value is measured by how much you personally produce.

But something shifts when you start leading people.

You realize the biggest impact in a room rarely comes from the person talking the most. It comes from the person asking the right question. The person who sees potential before someone else sees it in themselves. The person who creates an environment where others can step forward.

This is especially true in healthcare.

No single clinician has the full picture. Medication safety, patient outcomes, and quality of life improve when pharmacists, physicians, nurses, caregivers, and families work together.

The best leaders in healthcare understand that their job is not to control the room. Their job is to elevate the room.

They teach.
They encourage.
They create space for others to contribute their expertise.

Because the strongest systems are built by teams that trust each other and grow together.

Becoming a leader means your impact is no longer based on your output.

It’s based on your ability to help other people unlock their potential.

03/12/2026

Most medication problems do not start with a bad prescription.

They start with a growing list.

A daughter recently told us something that stayed with me.

“I thought my dad was getting sicker. I didn’t realize it might be the medications.”

Her father had done everything right.

He saw his doctors.
He took every prescription as directed.
He followed the treatment plans.

Over time the medication list slowly expanded.

One prescription for blood pressure.
Another for sleep.
Something for nerve pain.
Something for dizziness.

Then the symptoms started to change.

Fatigue.
Confusion.
Falls.

Each appointment focused on the newest symptom.

What rarely had time to happen was a full review of the entire medication list.

When we reviewed everything together, several medications stood out as possible contributors to the issues he was experiencing.

Working with his physicians, adjustments were made carefully and safely.

Within weeks his daughter noticed a difference.

More alert.
More stable walking.
More like himself again.

She said something we hear from families often.

“For the first time, someone looked at the whole picture.”

Many seniors take medications prescribed by multiple providers across different specialties.

Each prescription may make sense on its own.

The combination can still create serious problems.

This is why medication reviews matter.

Helping families and clinicians step back and evaluate the full picture is central to the work we do at GeriatRx.

03/10/2026

When I was 10 years old, my parents took me to the place that shaped our family long before I was born.

Guyana.

The only English-speaking country in South America and the place my parents always spoke about with pride.

In the late 90s, I finally got to experience it for myself.

For the first time I met the aunts, uncles, and cousins whose names filled conversations at home. We stayed in a house built on stilts, common throughout Guyana because the country sits below sea level and flooding is part of life during the rainy season.

I remember sitting outside listening to soca while drinking sorrel and eating more food than a 10-year-old should probably manage. Roti and curry. Bake and saltfish. Pepperpot. Chow mein.

We explored Georgetown and visited St. Rose’s Primary School, where my mother attended. We stopped by the National Zoo and saw monkeys, sloths, and other animals native to the Amazon. We packed ourselves into 50-cent taxis weaving through traffic while my parents reconnected with old friends and revisited the places that shaped their early lives.

One of the most unforgettable moments was taking a small plane into the Essequibo region to see Kaieteur Falls. At 741 feet, it stands as one of the world’s tallest single-drop waterfalls. I still remember hiking through the rainforest in slacks, a plaid shirt, and a hat before carefully stepping onto the rocks near the top of the falls for a picture we still talk about today.

At the time, it felt like an adventure.

Looking back, it meant much more.

Many of the elders in my family carried knowledge of plant-based medicine and traditional healing practices. As a child, I didn’t fully understand how meaningful that exposure would become.

Those early experiences planted seeds.

Seeds that eventually led me toward pharmacy and a lifelong interest in holistic approaches to healing.

Sometimes the roots of our calling start forming long before we recognize them.

For me, many of those roots trace back to Guyana.

And they continue to shape how I think about healing today.

03/06/2026

Sometimes the medication list becomes the diagnosis.

In older adults, 1 in 6 hospitalizations are caused by medications.

Let that sit for a second.

Not rare.
Not unpredictable.
Often preventable.

Earlier this week we talked about the prescribing cascade.

A medication causes a side effect.
The side effect gets labeled a new condition.
Another medication gets added.

The list grows.
The risk grows.

Heading into the weekend, here is the real question:

How many “new problems” are actually medication effects?

Adding a medication is easy.

Knowing when to stop takes expertise.

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