In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new study, led by psychiatry assistant professor Theodore D. Satterthwaite, utilized machine learning to identify brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately diagnose and treat patients.
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E xecutive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and LDI Senior Fellow has been named the 2018 recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's David E. Rogers Award for his work elevating the standard of health care delivery in America, and advancing the education of future physicians.
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Anew scholarship named for Penn Medicine professor and LDI Senior Fellow David Asch awarded Solymar Torres Maldonado and Katharine (Kara) Freeman as the inaugural recipients of the David A. Asch Medical Student Scholars in Health Services Research scholarship.
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has appointed Penn Nursing’s Nancy Hodgson, the Anthony Buividas Endowed Term Chair in Gerontology, to his 35-member Long-Term Care Council.
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For Garret FitzGerald, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at Penn, multiple sabbaticals at various health tech companies and other learning institutions exposed him to the different medical disciplines, from molecular biology to the power and language of bioinformatics, and on understanding the biology of senescence.
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In a study published online in Genes and Development Mitchell Lazar and his team found that reducing macrophage activity, the immune system's inflammatory response to tissue damage, can inhibit obesity and diabetes, diseases associated with prolonged inflammation.
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A study finds that encouraging doctors to prescribe preventative cholesterol-lowering medication helps prevent long-term strokes and heart attacks, and electronic “nudges” embedded in patient's health dashboards can work to increase preventative prescription rates.
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Penn Dental Medicine’s Hyun (Michel) Koo, an international leader in the field of cariology, has been recognized for his research by the International Association for Dental Research as the 2018 recipient of the William H. Bowen Research in Dental Caries Award.
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In the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Penn Medicine's Jalayne Arias, Jason Karlawish, and colleagues analyze whether, under current state laws, insurers could use Alzheimer's predictive biomarkers to deny coverage, and Penn Law's Allison Hoffman examines the lack long-term care insurance.
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The popular anti-aging treatment has surprising applications for medical ailments, from correcting crossed eyes to remedying intestinal distress.
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