In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In “The American Pathology of Inequitable Access to Medical Care,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor of Law Allison K. Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the U.S. and shows how “variable access illustrates, among other things, an American ambivalence about health solidarity.”
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The internationally recognized leaders in health care and connectivity will partner with Quil platform to customize and enhance care and patient education through video and digital communication.
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Together with MARS Equestrian™, the School of Veterinary Medicine has launched a research program dedicated to advancing critical frontiers in equine health. At its core, the MARS Equestrian™ Early Career Investigator program is providing aspiring veterinary researchers with a multidimensional mentorship experience guided by a team of leading Penn Vet researchers and animal health experts from MARS Equestrian™ and the WALTHAM™ Equine Studies Group.
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Recent advances in ultrasound technology has allowed for the development of ultra-portable handheld devices that are especially promising for uses such as monitoring heart failure and pneumonia in geriatric populations that have difficulties with mobility or remain entirely housebound.
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The Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences has partnered with Walmart to conduct the largest-ever communication research study aimed at increasing flu vaccinations during the Fall 2020 flu season. The results of the study will be well-timed to assist with encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Robert Zemsky, a leader in the field and a professor in Penn GSE’s Higher Education Division, spent the summer briefing university leaders, boards of trustees, system administrators, and policy makers on six trends that will influence higher education decision making in 2021.
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Developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia (Philanthropy Network) with support from William Penn and Lenfest Foundations, the dashboard is one of the first efforts to collect grants data from numerous pooled giving funds and share it publicly, mapped against demographic and economic data.
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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School announces that its Future of the Profession Initiative will partner with Access to Justice Tech Fellows (“A2J Tech Fellows”), a nonprofit organization that develops summer fellowships for law students seeking to leverage technology to create equitable legal access for low-income and marginalized populations. A2J Tech Fellow’s founder and executive director, Miguel Willis, will serve as FPI’s inaugural Innovator in Residence.
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Penn Medicine researchers have developed a new targeted approach to prevent a toxicity seen in the sensory neurons of dorsal root ganglia after gene therapy to treat neurological disorders. It’s an important hurdle to clear, as the field works toward more safe and effective gene therapies for patients with disorders like spinal muscular atrophy.
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Peter Fixler has been hired as the chief arborist at the Morris Arboretum, a position made possible by the McCausland Foundation and Janet and John Haas, who have combined forces to fully endow the Chief Arborist position. In doing so, they have chosen to honor Paul W. Meyer, who recently retired after 43 years of service, 27 of those as the F. Otto Haas Executive Director.
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