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Mammogram rates increase when patients can schedule themselves
By making mammograms easy to schedule through personal online patient portals, Penn Medicine research shows a significant increase in screenings for breast cancer.
Can’t be yourself at work? Let’s talk about ‘covering’
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with experts about the harmful effects of “covering,” a strategy in which people downplay their identity to conform to mainstream culture in the workplace.
New drug helps narrow racial survival disparity in patients with acute myeloid leukemia
National data shows improved survival for non-Hispanic Black patients, according to a Penn Medicine analysis presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Perry World House announces Visiting Fellows for Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Program
The Global Justice and Human Rights visiting fellows are Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at New York University Law School, and Kate Gilmore is a former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, a professor-in-practice with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary professor with the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.
Announcing the 2023 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars
This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.
Edward Lin receives award at Harvard Dental School
Yi Te (Edward) Lin, a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.
Celebrating Penn graduate student at the Ghana Energy Awards
Penn graduate student Justice Ohene-Akoto was honored at the Ghana Energy Awards where participants discussed the best way to bring Ghana to a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive energy future.
Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine will present data on the latest advances in blood cancer and benign hematology research at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The safety net funding that isn’t getting to safety net patients
LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee says the flaws of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Programs are its failure to effectively target federal safety-net funding for hospitals, lowering the quality of care and outcomes for safety-net patients, particularly for those of color.
Penn Collaboratory to fund ten new pilot studies on aging
The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—made up of Penn’s School of Nursing, the Perelman School of Medicine, and other departments across the University—focuses on identifying developing, evaluating, commercializing, and disseminating innovative technology and artificial intelligence methods/software to support aging.