CEO Kevin Mahoney of Penn Medicine says that the health system’s ambitious multimillion-dollar pipeline of construction projects is likely to be slowed due to labor shortages, rising supply costs, and declining federal government support tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A $125 million endowment to the School of Nursing will allow its students that are nurses to apply to become nurse practitioners through the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program.
Penn’s medical schools are noted for their efforts to increase Black representation in the students accepted and the professional personnel hired.
With the help of Penn Medicine, Chester County resident Candace Gantt founded the Mind Your Brain Foundation to support fellow traumatic brain injury survivors.
Third-year med student Jasmine Brown at the Perelman School of Medicine explores the untold 150-year history of Black female physicians in her new book, “Twice as Hard.”
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine believes that boosters might not be necessary for anyone but the most vulnerable patients, at least until long-lasting T-cell responses dissipate.
In a letter to the editor, Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences criticizes a recent essay critiquing the use of statistical procedures in social sciences.
