In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
As an eighth-grader living with a cancer diagnosis, Alli Kellers suddenly faced an entirely new set of teenage challenges. Her cancer treatment required a full team of experts in her hometown of Lancaster and Philadelphia, including a pediatric neurosurgeon, oncologist, radiologist and behavioral health counselor.
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Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Chioma Woko has been named to its 2018 cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars for her work as a a health communication doctoral student studying health behaviors online. She is conducting research on what factors influence people in social networks to carry out health behaviors, such as physical activity, contraceptive use, and tobacco-related behaviors.
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Current and former faculty and residents from Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine played key roles in the 7th World Workshop of Oral Medicine held in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24-26, 2018.
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Danielle Mowery, will also lead the Clinical Research Informatics Core (CIC) in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. The new role supports the evolution of clinical and translation research with a focus on data analytics and integration.
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Of the eighteen new Senior Fellows to the Leonard Davis Institute, three members are from Penn Nursing: Nancy Hodgson, Ariana Chao, PhD, and Pamela Cacchione.
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A study led by Eric J. Brown, an associate professor of cancer biology in the Perelman School of Medicine, identifies a new approach to the molecular mechanism of cancer drugs could aid in better identifying the best treatments for patients for an array of cancers.
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Alan Ruby, a Senior Fellow at Penn GSE and senior scholar with Penn AHEAD, reflects on helping launch Kazakhstan’s first research intensive English language university.
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Wharton's Olivia Mitchell discusses her research on how to convince people to delay claiming Social Security benefits.
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Trout is an assistant professor of women’s health in the Department of Family and Community Health, and the track lead of the Nurse-Midwifery Graduate Program.
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Experts in nephrology and health policy call for more transparency about joint-venture ownership of dialysis clinics to better understand what impact these arrangements may have on patient referrals and clinical outcomes.
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