In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The 2018 winner of the AcademyHealth Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award is a senior fellow at Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics who focuses on behavioral economics, and the intersection of humans and digital technologies.
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The Penn Center for Precision Medicine is working to expand precision medicine practices to a number of fields, including addiction, cardiology, oncology, infectious diseases, psychiatry, and rare diseases. Precision medicine is designed to tailor individual patient care based not just on diagnosis, but genetics and medical history.
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Ralph W. Muller, the CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), will step down in late June of 2019, after a 17-year tenure that helped establish Penn Medicine as one of the top medical centers in the country.
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In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Penn researchers call for modernizing the way Medicare pays for training nurses, and highlight a successful new model of cost-effectively training more advanced practice nurses to practice community-based primary care.
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The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety is utilizing prolonged exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and trauma that sexual abuse survivors experience, linking PTSD with sexual trauma, not just war trauma.
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Benjamin A.Garcia, an expert in quantitative proteomics, was awarded the Biemann Medal by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry for significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry.
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The Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF) is using the kind of geospatial analysis other industries use to determine future trauma centers, in an effort to analyze the best possible placement to meet trauma patients needs effectively.
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A collaboration of researchers including Penn Nursing professors released a report in the Annals of Family medicine from an ongoing study on how to improve the transition process from hospital to home.
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A team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine discovered that suppressing impaired cellular struts, called microtubules, can lessen the stiffness in diseased heart muscle cells, thereby improving their beating strength.
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The professor of systems pharmacology and translational therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine is an international leader in cardiovascular disease research, and selected for membership in the Academy’s section on physiology and pharmacology/toxicology.
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