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  • A culture of inclusion at Penn Medicine during LGBTQ+ Pride month and all year long

    At this year’s 2023 Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Pride march, staff from across the University of Pennsylvania Health System, along with their friends, families, and neighbors—nearly 30 people in all—participated to celebrate the Philadelphia LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm Penn Medicine’s commitment to health equity, representation, and support for queer individuals who are employed by or receive care across the Health System.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Yu Zhang recognized by the International Association for Dental Research for research, innovation

    The professor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, has been awarded the 2023 IADR DMG Peyton-Skinner Award for his outstanding contributions to innovation in dental materials.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • City of Philadelphia honors Penn Dental Dean for service to individuals with disabilities

    Mark S. Wolff, Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, was honored by the City of Philadelphia for his service to individuals with disabilities as a 2023 recipient of the “My City, My Place” Brighter Futures Awards

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Tweets from emergency medicine clinicians during COVID-19 reveal mental distress

    LDI senior fellows Anish K. Agarwal and Sharath Chandra Guntuku discuss a study that finds the Surgeon General’s “epidemic of loneliness” has hit emergency physicians.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • RSV Is a serious health threat, but the public knows little about it

    A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the American public is ill-informed about RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, unfamiliar with its most common symptoms, and more hesitant to recommend a vaccine against it to pregnant people than to older adults. 

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Two early-career investigators from Penn Vet recognized for advancing biomedical research

    Andrew Modzelewski, assistant professor of molecular biology, has been named a 2023 Searle Scholar, and Kotaro Sasaki, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, has received the Endocrine Society’s 2023 Early Investigator Award. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Patients with opioid addiction describe the factors that make them quit methadone

    When patients first start methadone treatment opioid use disorder, they must show up five to six days per week in person to get their daily dose. To determine which factors play the largest role in a person’s decision to quit methadone treatment, LDI associate fellow Ashish Thakrar and his colleagues asked patients and staff about why those on methadone decided to stop.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Employee telemedicine visits nearly 25% less costly than in-person for health systems

    A new analysis comparing Penn Medicine OnDemand services with in-person care shows that telemedicine visits are significantly less expensive to deliver.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Discovering cell identity: $6M NIH grant funds new Penn Medicine research to uncover cardiac cell development

    The seven-year grant will enable researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine launch efforts to uncover how the development and maintenance of heart cells is influenced by DNA.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry presents annual symposium

    Current research at the interface of dental medicine and engineering was in the spotlight as the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry, the collaborative center between Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, presented its 2nd Annual Symposium: Dentists, Scientists & Engineers Transforming Oral Health.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →