In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new rehabilitation program encourages movement as neuroprotective therapy to slow the loss of the dopamine neurons responsible for the physical decline in Parkinson's patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Min Yao Li and Sharon Xie are the newest fellows elected to the largest statistician organization in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A list of the award winners who will be honored at the Student-Alumni-Faculty Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 11th.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
From monitoring patients' sleep like vital signs, to making hospital room environments more relaxing, researchers with the Rest Project at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation are working with hospital clinicians to get their patients to sleep better.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Two Dental Medicine students who received the American Association for Dental Research award will present their original research projects at the IADR/ER General Session and Exhibition in London this July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing published a special series that detail best practices for the handling, pricing and donating of supplemental breastmilk for newborns. For infants in the NICU, or for mothers with compromised or inadequate amounts of breastmilk, donor milk banks are becoming increasingly popular.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
A list of awards won for excellence in teaching at the Graduate School of Education and the School of Nursing.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
The associate professor of oral medicine and director of the postdoctoral oral medicine program at Penn Dental School was installed as president for 2018-19 at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Preclinical research published in PLOS One shows potential for decreasing the risk of heart failure in Friedreich's ataxia patients, and will move forward with trials to determine whether raising HDL levels, or "good cholesterol" by administering statins will reduce their cardiovascular risk.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
At an event sponsored by the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, author, surgeon, and professor Atul Gawande characterized the present era in health care as a pivotal point in history. He focused much of his remarks on an innovative approach to the clinical planning and execution of care for patients with serious illness—something that has been one of medicine’s most unsettled areas.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
