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Zena Harrison joined Mercy Philadelphia Hospital—now HUP Cedar—as a clinical dietitian in 2016. After Mercy became HUP Cedar in the spring of 2021, Harrison and her manager at the time joined discussions with Sofia Carreno, HUP’s nursing professional development specialist for community engagement, about bringing the HUP food pantry to the Cedar community. This planning is still underway.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A new installation of objects from the Penn Museum on the HUP Pavilion’s ground floor are artifacts showing some of the ways humans around the world have addressed healing, nourishment, and protection from illness from the ancient past to the present.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The LDI senior fellow and professor with appointments at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School has been awarded for developing the science of application of behavioral economics to health care settings. Among other contributions, his research found that patients who received a monetary incentive to quit smoking had three times the success rate of patients who did not receive an incentive.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Perelman School of Medicine, who has won the award for for her ability to blend conceptual and legal analysis with rigorous empirical methods to address pressing ethical challenges, including those related to aging, cognitive disability, and research involving human participants.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
Cary Coglianese, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, has been named the chair of an ad hoc National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee formed to identify emerging issues that are likely to demand U.S. Coast Guard services over the next decade and consider whether the Service’s existing statutory authorities are sufficient to meet this demand, and, if not, where the Service’s authority could be bolstered.
FULL STORY AT Penn Program on Regulation →
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation (announced $1.5 million in grants to support bold new programs addressing the health of marginalized populations. Two of the grant recipients are from Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health: J. Margo Brooks Carthon, the Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research and Associate Professor of Nursing; and Sara Jacoby, the Calvin Bland Fellow and Assistant Professor of Nursing.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
As the first intensive care unit in the Northeast U.S. exclusively dedicated for deceased organ donors, the Center has access to advanced medicine, tools, and technology that will maximize the impact of each donor’s life-saving gifts.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Kenneth and Joyce Robbins have amassed a collection of more than 100,000 items relating to the history of South Asia, Africans in the greater Indian Ocean world, and the Jewish diaspora in India and beyond. This year, they designated the Penn Libraries as the recipient of the Kenneth and Joyce Robbins Collection of South Asia History in their estate planning.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
Misinformation causing public health challenges is not a new phenomenon. A study by Anish Agarwal, assistant professor of emergency medicine and the deputy director of the Center for Digital Health in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Sharath Chandra Guntuku, assistant professor in computer and information science in Penn Engineering will use machine learning to analyze social media posts will uncover actionable commonalities across different racial groups and across urban vs. rural environments.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has released recommendations based on a Sentinel Event Review of the Seattle PD’s response to protests in 2020.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
