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Dag Woubeshet (right) speaks with student in a classroom who is giving the thumbs up.

Dagmawi Woubshet (right), Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, says “we try to teach our students how to think critically and historically, but also with fidelity to the art object.”

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Literature and medicine

The Penn Arts & Sciences course Literature and Medicine begins with Apollo and the Hippocratic Oath and extends through the 21st century with poetry, novels, videography, historical texts, and guest lecturers from the Perelman School of Medicine and beyond.

Kristina Linnea García

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PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region
Three members of the PennSTAR flight crew next to a helicopter.

The flight crew of a PennSTAR helicopter on the roof of the Clifton Center in between call.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region

PennSTAR’s flight crews and Metro Aviation pilots combine rigorous training, redundant safety, and a proprietary instrument approach to move the sickest patients quickly to the right Penn Medicine care.

From Penn Medicine News

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RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine 
Kevin Mahoney, Jennifer Kogan, J. Larry Jameson, Rod and Marti Speranza Wong, Lisa Bellini, and Jonathan Epstein.

(From left) Kevin Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS); Jennifer Kogan, vice dean for Undergraduate Medical Education; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Rod Wong and Marti Speranza Wong; Lisa Bellini, executive vice dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and senior vice president of academic affairs for UPHS; Jonathan Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for UPHS.

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RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine 

The gift sparks curriculum transformation, new lectureship, and names Entrepreneurship Pathway in honor of alumnus Rod Wong.

Carmen Lennon

2 min. read

Can aging be treated at the cellular level?
A microscope with a slide.

Image: Wladimir Bulgar via Getty Images

Can aging be treated at the cellular level?

Penn researchers Shelley Berger and Esra Sahingur explain senescence, the process of cellular aging, and discuss the complexities of developing anti-aging therapies that target these cells.

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Can AI tools help train a more effective physician?

Can AI tools help train a more effective physician?

CRISP (Clinical Reasoning Insights for Shaping Performance) is a new Penn Medicine initiative that will use AI-enabled systems to deliver data-driven feedback to medical students and postgraduate trainees, thanks to a new $1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association.

Gene therapy ‘switch’ may offer non-addictive pain relief
Scan of human amygdala.

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Gene therapy ‘switch’ may offer non-addictive pain relief

In a preclinical study, Penn Medicine researchers have uncovered a new gene therapy that targets only pain signals while leaving the rest of the brain untouched.

Eric Horvath

2 min. read

New video dataset to advance AI for health care
Kevin Johnson seated at his desk with a computer and Karen O'Connor, seated at his desk, both testing the new equipment.

Kevin Johnson, left, demonstrating the recording process with Karen O’Connor, right.

(Image: Sylvia Zhang)

New video dataset to advance AI for health care

Penn Engineering’s multimodal medical dataset, Observer, links video, audio, and transcripts to clinical data and electronic health records.

Ian Scheffler

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New AI tool helps doctors to sift and synthesize patient data

New AI tool helps doctors to sift and synthesize patient data

An AI-guided platform at Penn Medicine allows clinicians to quickly and easily unearth pertinent information from patients’ electronic health records that otherwise might have been difficult to find.