Oct 4, 2018
More than 120 medical students, residents, physicians and educators from 27 schools across the United States attended the student-led Accelerating Change in Medical Education consortium Aug. 3 and 4, 2018, in Hershey.
Oct 2, 2018
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward grant will allow Penn State’s Dr. Steven Schiff and team to explore a radically changed approach to predicting, preventing and treating infectious disease at the individual level at point-of-care.
Splitting up and getting back together is always hard to do, but for proteins, it's almost impossible. However, a computer-guided algorithm may help scientists find just the right spot to split a protein and then reassemble it to functionality.
Oct 1, 2018
Dr. John Boehmer, professor of medicine and surgery, and former president of the Penn State College of Medicine Faculty Organization, has been selected as the new associate dean for faculty affairs. He will replace Dr. Carol Weisman when she retires in July 2019.
Penn State College of Medicine’s Continuing Education program recently achieved Accreditation with Commendation from the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education. More than 60,000 physicians and non-physicians have participated in the program during the past six years.
Dr. Michael Freeman, a pediatric nephrologist and ethicist with Penn State Health Children's Hospital, is featured in the October Penn State College of Medicine’s “Exceptional Moments in Teaching” program.
Sep 28, 2018
Graduate, physician assistant, resident and medical alumni gather in Hershey for Alumni weekend.
Sep 27, 2018
There is an ongoing need for healthy volunteers in clinical research studies that can lead to healthcare breakthroughs that provide better drugs and treatments for patients.
Sep 25, 2018
A new grant will help Penn State researchers develop an innovative foam that helps seal wounds quickly -- on the battlefield, rural areas, or other isolated locations far from hospitals.
From aging to cancer—with quite a bit in between—Katherine Aird, assistant professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine, and her team have a whole world of research opportunities in front of them. This is not just because they have a lot yet to discover, as Aird insists they do, but because the progress they have made has incredibly broad potential impact.
