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This HR leader hears, heeds, and helps those who heal others
Kenya Pitt.

Kenya Pitt is the chief human resources officer for Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

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This HR leader hears, heeds, and helps those who heal others

Kenya Pitt, chief human resources officer for Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, devotes her time to workforce strategies from compensation to talent acquisition to employee retention for the nearly 4,000 employees at PPMC.

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Charting a new frontier with psychedelic drugs
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Charting a new frontier with psychedelic drugs

Penn Medicine’s Dominic Sisti is part of a group of experts including bioethicists, psychiatrists, and Indigenous scholars charting a path toward crafting guidelines for the ethical use of psychedelics.

Eric Horvath

When there’s money to lose, phone usage while driving drops
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When there’s money to lose, phone usage while driving drops

New research from Penn Medicine finds that feedback plus cash incentives designed with insights from behavioral science reduces phone use while driving.

Frank Otto

Protecting against burnout
Kandi Wiens.

Kandi Wiens is the co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education program.

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Protecting against burnout

Penn GSE’s Kandi Wiens’ latest book aims to help readers build resilience to stress and heal their relationship to work.