In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The course offers online training in best practices for telehealth, including an overview of the field of telemedicine and telehealth, the history of the field, types of telehealth applications, and discusses practical considerations such as issues pertaining to licensure, reimbursement, and workflow.
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Penn Memory Center co-director Jason Karlawish joined a panel of national experts to discuss the benefits and harms of social distancing, its potential mental health effects, and what relaxation measures would eventually look like as a part of a webinar series form the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine.
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The Center for Health Economics and Behavioral Economics faculty and staff have been busy working on a variety of projects to help patients, clinicians, and health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a chatbot for FAQs, a COVID-19 watch monitoring program, and a pregnancy watch.
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The associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering has been named director of the Penn Institute of Computational Science, a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement, integration, and support of Penn research via the tools and techniques of high-performance computing.
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Rae Chaloult joined the PVP staff April 1 as associate director, and Reema Malhotra will start May 1 as associate director focused on serving and supporting graduate and professional students.
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Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for the best book in History and Social Science from the American Conference on Irish Studies for his book, A Treatise on Northern Ireland.
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Bassett was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for significant contributions to the application of neural network theory for understanding both physio and patho-physiological brain function.
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Wharton real estate professor Benjamin Keys examines reasons behind personal economic struggle, with a particular look at whether geography or individual characteristics play a role.
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Wind developers are scrambling to revise their construction and operation plans for both new and existing projects amidst coronavirus pandemic concerns, and new projects have to break ground by year-end in order to qualify for the extended 2018 production tax credit level.
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A tiny chemical modification at an atomic level on one of the most abundant and important proteins in cells furthers fundamental understanding of human life.
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