In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The NIDCR postdoctoral trainee at Penn Dental Medicine is the recipient of the American Dental Association Foundation 2023 Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award in support of his multidisciplinary, translational preclinical research, which has developed new investigative avenues in Photobiomodulation light therapy.
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Researchers from Penn Medicine and the Wharton School have collaborated with Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services to develop a new type of data infrastructure for regional suicide prevention efforts.
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A new study from Penn LDI finds the terms of these tests shift responsibility to the consumer to determine the results’ accuracy and usefulness.
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Indigenous populations have the lowest life expectancy of all racial groups and experience disproportionate burdens for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease. To evaluate these disparities, LDI senior fellows Lauren A. Eberly, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judy A. Shea, Peter W. Groeneveld, and colleagues used Medicare administrative data and the Distressed Communities Index to assess trends in the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries
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Penn physicians and scientists will lead studies on underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with a grant from the Delaware Community Foundation.
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The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.
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A research team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center has received the grant for cancer research to target dormant tumor cells before they can cause a recurrence of the disease.
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In a new study by LDI senior fellow Courtney A. Schreiber and colleagues concluded that Rh testing and immunoglobulin administration is unnecessary after induced first-trimester abortion. These study results also suggest ways to reduce financial and clinical barriers to abortion care.
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Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.
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