In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing and professor of nursing has been awarded the 2021 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Church of Christian Compassion will provide 500 doses of COVID-19 to registrants from across the local faith community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Inflammation in the blood could serve as a new biomarker to help identify patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who won’t respond to the immune-stimulating drugs known as CD40 agonists.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A paper in JAMA Internal Medicine examines regulatory frameworks of drug pricing in six countries with diverse financing, delivery, and reimbursement systems, ranging from socialized medicine to markets with competing private insurers and providers. The researchers found that these countries have nearly universal health insurance, covering more than 99% of their population, and none have the monopolistic pricing and marketing exclusivity found in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Richard James has held the position of Nursing Liaison Librarian at the Biomedical Library for the last four years, but recently his efforts have been directed toward helping nurses and other medical professionals meet the extraordinary demands of global health crises. These efforts include an ongoing collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the delivery of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) developed by the World Health Organization
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The Population Aging Research Center presents a research brief that suggests population health screenings can reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases in low-income countries.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
With a major gift from a Penn Dental Medicine alumnus, the School has established the LGBTQ+ Fund with the goal of identifying LGBTQ+ based biases in the dental profession and ways to dispel them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Chester County Hospital’s Victoria DiBerardino wanted to be neonatal intensive care (NICU) nurse as long as she can remember, as the NICU is part of her own birth story. She was born premature at the same hospital, and spent two weeks in the NICU unit. DiBerardino spent two years at Lancaster General’s Women and Babies Hospital before she could transfer to CCH, her beloved hometown hospital.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn researchers find that an enzyme that reduces the effects of PARP inhibition could be targeted to achieve more potent killing of cancer cells and overcome tumors’ resistance to this class of drugs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
New research from Penn Medicine finds that making doctors opt out from prescribing cardiac rehabilitation instead of opting in increased referrals by roughly 70%.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
