In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Leaders in BRCA research say the new screening recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force are a positive step forward, but testing of individuals with the highest risks must improve.
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Penn Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2023 DMD students to the study of dental medicine at its annual White Coat Ceremony, held August 12 at Penn’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Shaon Sengupta, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn and an attending neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spoke with Amita Sehgal about her work, which centers on the 24-hour rhythms that drive animal behavior. Like Sehgal, Sengupta is also interested in how chronobiology affects human health, and began her science education in India. Her interview is part of a yearlong online campaign highlighting #WomenofPenn.
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Prefabricated bathroom pods are just one of the items manufactured for the Pavilion at PennFab, Penn Medicine’s off-site manufacturing facility in Grey’s Ferry. Prefab assemblies add flexibility to a complicated project, improving efficiency and uniformity in the design.
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Baren has been a member of the ABEM Board of Directors since July 2012, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2016. She is also an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and has served in many leadership roles at Penn Medicine and in professional organizations nationally.
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The new Team Science Grant, titled the "Determinants of immune activity and molecular features in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers," will support Katherine L. Nathanson and her team as they study new approaches to understanding immune function both in healthy BRCA mutation carriers and BRCA-related cancers.
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Theresa Larivee and Serena Dasani discuss their careers in academic medicine, how they combine financial and clinical expertise, and their approach to leadership.
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Twenty one senior health care leaders were chosen to join the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship’s fifth class and the program’s network of health care entrepreneurs and innovators from across the United States.
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Multiple trials have shown that by using these definitive treatment techniques on all visible tumor sites, patients can end up with better outcomes than what they would get with chemotherapy alone. The trial went one step further and added immunotherapy. In addition to the significant increase in overall average progression-free survival (PFS), the average PFS from the start of administering the drug pembrolizumab was 18.7 months.
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Trauma chaplaincy is Philadelphia native Barbara Trawick’s second career. After retiring from her administrative role at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, she was introduced to pastoral care through a church program that offered training for volunteers.
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