In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Medicine has targeted new ways to recruit early-career nurses, including investing in the new ASPIRE pipeline program that supports local high school and college students interested in the profession.
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The assistant professor of family medicine and community health in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead Penn Medicine’s Program for LGBTQ+ Health to address increase access to care, along with quality of care and patient experience, for LGBTQ+ individuals across the health system.
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The seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative to promote maternal health equity.
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Nduka M. Amankulor, an associate professor of neurosurgery and director of the Penn Brain Tumor Center at the Perelman School of Medicine has been appointed a Cancer Moonshot Scholar, one of 11 scholars included in the inaugural cohort of the program receiving a total of $5.4 million to support cancer research and innovation.
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In a new study, Penn Medicine researchers have discovered that a pattern of coordinated activity called “beta bursts” in a set of neurons in the lateral prefrontal cortex appears to have a major role in keeping attention task-focused, essentially by suppressing the influence of the distracting stimulus.
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This year, more than 45 University of Pennsylvania scientists were among 10,000 attendees of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference held in Amsterdam.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
A Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases that impact newborns in the first weeks and months after birth: Phenylketonuria (PKU), hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), and mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPSI), commonly known as Hurler’s Syndrome.
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In its eleventh year, the Penn Medicine CAREs grant program has funded 31 new and recurring grants to support employee and medical student community service projects.
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A research team from the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead a randomized clinical trial to examine how to effectively and equitably scale and deliver inpatient palliative care.
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To evaluate whether the The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act’s requirements improved the patient experience, LDI fellows Courtney R. Lee, Norma B. Coe, and Paula Chatterjee used data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, which measures patient experiences with discharges and other facets of hospital care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
