In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A research team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center has received the grant for cancer research to target dormant tumor cells before they can cause a recurrence of the disease.
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In a new study by LDI senior fellow Courtney A. Schreiber and colleagues concluded that Rh testing and immunoglobulin administration is unnecessary after induced first-trimester abortion. These study results also suggest ways to reduce financial and clinical barriers to abortion care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A new study by LDI senior fellow Norma B. Coe and colleagues finds that long-term care insurance coverage could increase the economic opportunities for adult children of aging parents by increasing the likelihood that they work full-time.
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The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.
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A Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics September 29 conference, “Methods Matter: Understanding and Measuring Race and Racism in Health Research,” addressed the question of whether the U.S. scientific community is using inadequate methods to measure and address racism in health care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which typically require prescription writing, discharge summary creation, and team consultations for home care entail more complex coordination and planning.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
In a new study, LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani unpacks the use of measures of race in clinical prediction models and provide a useful framework to focus ongoing debates.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
