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Tom Keiser
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS: Registered polysomnographic technologist, Pennsylvania Hospital YEARS AT PENN: 7 1/2 WHAT HE DOES: Keiser’s responsibilities range from conducting sleep tests on patients—some of which are done during the day, some at night—to fitting patients for masks to ordering supplies for the department.
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Penn in Botswana
For the last five years, Harvey Friedman has racked up thousands of frequent flyer miles traveling to Botswana. Penn’s chief of infectious diseases runs a comprehensive HIV program there that provides clinical care and trains local providers. With 38 percent of Botswana’s adults infected with HIV, the African nation is one of the hardest hit in the world. Penn currently has seven fulltime faculty in the republic helping provide care in public hospitals in Gaborone and Francistown.
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Stem cells minus controversy?
George Xu’s lab was the first to isolate and grow a new variety of multipotent stem cells from hair follicles. Now the challenge is to find a way to grow them faster and in greater number. Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
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Q&A/Fred Kaplan and Eileen Shore
In the mid-1980s, physician Fred Kaplan met a little girl with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Watching the disease progress in the girl “was like watching a molecular terrorist attack her body,” he says. In this and other FOP patients, soft tissues and muscles metamorphize into bone, essentially forming a second skeleton and rendering movement impossible.
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HUP, SOM, UPHS ? I’m sort of confused
Dear Benny,I’m a little bit confused about the hospitals that fall under the Health System. What are they and when exactly did Penn start running so many of them? Where does the Medical School fit into all of this? And what exactly is Penn Medicine?—Muddled About Medicine
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For the Record: Let the sun shine in
By The Current Staff Photo credit: University Archives What we now know as Penn Presbyterian Medical Center started out, in 1871, as a 45-bed charitable institution called the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia that was located on 2 ½ acres at 39th Street and Powelton Avenue.
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Hospital cafes
By The Current Staff It’s no secret that food for hospital patients leaves a lot to be desired. But, what’s the food like for those who visit and staff Penn’s hospitals?
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Office Hours
Fall is a busy time. Kids are back in school and schedules suddenly seem a lot more crowded. Work, too, kicks back into high gear after a summer lull. So, how can you stay calm and not stress out? How can parents keep kids healthy as they are exposed to germs at school? And why am I still sneezing? Isn’t allergy season over? We put all of these questions and more to physician Kevin M. Fosnocht, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Here’s what he had to say:
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Staff Q&A: Stacey Peeples
Stacey Peeples pauses before opening the door to her office. “I’d like to say it doesn’t always look like this, but it does, every day.” Inside this narrow attic space in Pennsylvania Hospital’s 18th-century Pine Building, tables and file cabinets are piled high with books and papers. The shelves lining the eaves hold box upon box of records from the hospital’s 250-year plus history.
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Ahead of the Current: Jeff Daniels
In a film career spanning three decades, Jeff Daniels has played a tortured artist/diner owner ("Pleasantville") and a Civil War hero ("Gettysburg"), a fumbling small-town doctor ("Arachnophobia") and a self-absorbed professor ("Terms of Endearment"), an embittered novelist ("The Squid & The Whale") and a SWAT team leader ("Speed"). In all, he's appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows—which makes us wonder when, exactly, he's found the time to be a songwriter.