In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
David Skeel, the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law and member of Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight and Management Board discusses whether privatizing Puerto Rico’s electric system, which was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, is a viable solution.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Jonathan A. Epstein, executive vice dean, chief scientific officer, and the William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research in the Perelman School of Medicine, has been awarded the Harriet P. Dustan Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine by the American College of Physicians, a national organization of internists.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A new grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) makes Penn the only university in the country to have two NIA Roybal Centers. The Transformative Residential Palliative Care for Persons with Dementia Through Behavioral Economics and Data Science center’s new grant will fund five years of research.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
In the fall of 1990, Paula Crawford-Gamble left her decade-long nursing career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to join the Navy Nurse Corps, where she worked to set up a 1,000-bed hospital for those injured during the Persian Gulf War. Now, Crawford-Gamble is back at Penn Medicine, using 25 years of experience in the armed forces to lead Penn’s Veterans Care Excellence Program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
When a medical emergency strikes and time is of the essence, it’s certainly helps to have Francoise Eberhardt, around. Eberhardt was overseeing Penn’s Mobile CPR Project table at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women when she watched a woman just a few feet away violently convulsing. Eberhardt cradled her head to protect it from the floor and nearby table legs and called out instructions—call 911, inform security, clear the area, and stay calm.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The decision to act on conscience in response to wrongdoing at the workplace in the past was considered “a very risky proposition for an employee who would like to stay working at the company,” says Janice Bellace, Wharton professor emeritus of legal studies and business ethics. That’s because for all of the prominence of whistleblowing in the past decade or so, there is still often no safe roadmap for a worker who has seen something to say something.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A new study from Penn Nursing examines changes in general and weight-related quality of life outcomes in patients with obesity who participated in different weight loss treatments for 52 weeks. Results showed that an intensive lifestyle intervention produced clinically significant improvements in aspects of general and weight-related quality of life.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The exterior wrapping on Penn Medicine’s new patient care pavilion is nearly complete. With the exterior wrapped, the building is officially weather-proofed, allowing work to continue through the winter.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A team of Penn Medicine researchers have now made a promising discovery, showing that voriconazole increases levels of oxidative stress in skin cells, and that a common antioxidant can mitigate voriconazole’s cancer-inducing side-effect.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
As of July, Wharton’s leadership includes three more female faces: Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Diana C. Robertson; Rachel Werner, the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management at Wharton, a professor of medicine at the Perelman School, and a practicing physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and Nancy Zhang—Wharton professor of statistics, celebrated researcher, and former doctoral program co-director for the stats department.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Magazine →
