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  • Celebrating loyalty and dedication

    This year, the University of Pennsylvania Hospital System’s 25-Year Club welcomed 68 new members, bringing the total membership to almost 750 employees.

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  • Inside fear and its disorders

    How do we explain the body's reaction to fearful situations? When faced with a perceived threat or a scary situation, the fight or flight response kicks in, and the brain’s hippocampus and prefrontal cortex regions help us decide our next move: Is this something that I should be genuinely fearful of or not? The “emotional” part of our brain communicates with the higher-level “thinking” part of our brain to make the final call.

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  • Article of the year for Brawner

    Bridgette Brawner, associate professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, has won the 2018 Richard L. Sowell Article of the Year Award from the  Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

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  • Making gene therapy delivery safer and more efficient

    A study published in Molecular Therapy finds that inconsistency in the molecular makeup of vectors is a key concern in scaling up gene therapy production for patients.

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  • The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lauds Penn Medicine’s community health worker model

    A team from Penn Medicine that runs a program to improve health outcomes for veterans received a “Gold Status” Diffusion of Excellence award from the Veterans Health Administration.

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  • Innovation in dental education with new online certification program

    Penn Dental Medicine and the Academy for Advancing Leadership have partnered to develop an online, asynchronous certificate program for part-time and transitioning faculty members in dental and allied dental education.

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  • Climbing out of the anesthetic abyss

     Alexander Proekt and Max B. Kelz are part of Penn’s Center for the Neuroscience of Unconsciousness and Reanimation Research Alliance, driving research on the unconscious mind and the mechanisms behind states of anesthesia and wakefulness.

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  • Molecular details of protein reveal glimpse into how kidney stones form

    With a high-resolution image of an ion channel protein, researchers will now be able to use bioinformatics to discover compounds that interact with that protein to treat and prevent kidney stones in at-risk populations. 

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  • For teenage cancer patients, social well-being is a priority

    As an eighth-grader living with a cancer diagnosis, Alli Kellers suddenly faced an entirely new set of teenage challenges. Her cancer treatment required a full team of experts in her hometown of Lancaster and Philadelphia, including a pediatric neurosurgeon, oncologist, radiologist and behavioral health counselor.

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  • Penn Medicine welcomes inaugural chief research information officer

    Danielle Mowery, will also lead the Clinical Research Informatics Core (CIC) in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. The new role supports the evolution of clinical and translation research with a focus on data analytics and integration.

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