In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
For Americans undergoing treatment for alcohol use disorder, sustained recovery often relies on post-treatment continuing care. Advances in technology have made remote options to continuing care more feasible. A new study evaluates the effect of continuing care delivered via telephone support, a smartphone program, and a combination of both.
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The Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) has selected its inaugural class of fellows for its new postdoctoral training program. The CiPD was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research last summer to establish the program, recently naming this first cohort of fellows that includes Justin Burrell, Marshall Padilla, Zhi Ren, and Dennis Sourvanos.
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LDI senior fellows and associate professors at Penn’s School of Nursing Adriana Perez and Margo Carthon co-edited a special journal edition focused on how cultural conditions influence social determinants of health.
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Some people who have never experienced social anxiety in the past may go through reentry anxiety with COVID restrictions easing. For most people, these feelings and worries will likely disappear the more they engage with others. Anxiety expert Hillary Ammon, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine, says that reentry may be a challenge for someone who suffers from social anxiety—an anxiety disorder that causes extreme fear in social settings.
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Led by Daniel P. Kelly, director of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute (Penn CVI), CHOP CVI combines the best of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine to develop novel research programs and partner with existing programs to improve pediatric cardiovascular care.
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Professor of anesthesiology and critical care and neurology Renyu Liu’s “Wake Up Stroke 120” made the shortlist for the World Health Organization’s Health for All Film Festival.
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The Program of all-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) offers community-based care and services to nursing home-eligible older adults so that they can continue to live in their communities.
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A team of researchers at the Penn Memory Center (PMC) is striving to understand the networks of the medial temporal lobe in people living with Alzheimer’s. Led by PMC co-director Dave Wolk, a team of Penn researchers published a new study, “Medial Temporal Lobe Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease: Structural and Molecular Vulnerabilities,” which highlights the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the anterior-temporal and posterior-medial networks.
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A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study calls for a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. nursing home industry and its regulation. The report cites decades of inadequate resident care along with management shortcomings that led to the catastrophic levels of mortality experienced in nursing homes during the pandemic.
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Lawrence Pratt, a security officer in the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) trauma bay, does everything he can to support distressed family members and patients. As a Level 1 trauma center, PPMC sees some of the most severe cases from across the city, and with the surge in gun violence, that means many gunshot victims. Pratt lets family members know he’s been in their shoes, living in West Philadelphia and having lost loved ones of his own to gun violence.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
