Topics: Medicine

Rachel Frometa, who is seated and wears a mask and sunglasses on the top of her head, holds the hand of her mother, Betty Frometa, who stands beside her, as a vaccine is pressed into her arm by the hands of a health care worker.

Feeling relieved: Pop-up vaccination clinics reach underserved populations

Mar 30, 2021

Penn State Health is partnering with community organizations and local governments to help Phase 1A-eligible individuals in underserved communities have access to COVID-19 vaccinations.

A group of health care workers in scrubs stand in a hospital room and pose for a photo.

St. Joseph Medical Center Recognizes Guardian Angels for exceptional care

Mar 29, 2021

St. Joseph Medical Center presented three Guardian Angel awards on March 18 to Cancer Center staff recognized by patients and family members for exhibiting kindness and exceptional care.

Arshjot Khokhar, a fourth-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine, stands with his parents holding a sign saying that he matched into internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital.

The masked match: finding a future in medicine in the midst of a pandemic

Mar 22, 2021

Fourth-year medical student Nate Tolman remembers when the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic first set in. He was spending time with his fiancée, Brenda Iglesias, in Los Angeles in early […]

Four examples of abstract paintings by Dr. Noel H. Ballentine include black lines that flow among the colors.

Physician’s abstract art featured at Cocoa Beanery exhibit

Mar 2, 2021

Noel H. Ballentine, MD, a general internist and geriatrician at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, will exhibit his artwork at Cocoa Beanery.

In the foreground, a surgeon watches a monitor while a second surgeon, background, prepares to insert a cardiovascular device on a patient

Researchers assess heart failure treatment that ‘closes off’ damaged portion of heart, avoids open heart surgery

Feb 25, 2021

Cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and researchers at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine are investigating a less invasive treatment for heart failure.

A patient walks on a treadmill wearing a face mask in the lab of Dr. Jonathan Stine at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Stine and exercise physiologist Brei Hummer are watching the patient.

Stine shares liver research findings in gastroenterology podcast

Feb 24, 2021

Dr. Jonathan Stine, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, was featured on the Gastroenterology Learning Network podcast.

Image shows a portrait of Dr. Peter Malamas next to the words “Our students present Exceptional Moments in Teaching Residents/Fellows.”

Internal medicine resident Dr. Malamas honored for exceptional teaching

Feb 23, 2021

Dr. Peter Malamas, an internal medicine resident at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, was honored in February 2021 as part of the Exceptional Moments in Teaching program of Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine.

Angie Spohn stands in front of two large refrigerators in the lab and transfers test tubes from a rack into box. She wears a mask, lab coat and a pin that says ‘I got my COVID-19 vaccine!’

Behind the Scenes on the Front Lines: Laboratories

Feb 10, 2021

The staff at Penn State Health laboratories are processing tissue samples and blood tests, giving doctors information they need to make correct clinical diagnoses and undertaking pioneering research.

A portrait of Aimee Hagerty is superimposed over a rendering of the Hampden Medical Center.

Happy about Hampden: Aimee Hagerty, vice president and chief nursing officer

Feb 8, 2021

This month Penn State Health highlights Aimee Hagerty, vice president and chief nursing officer, Hampden Medical Center, who will be responsible for nursing practice and for administrative, operational and financial functions of nursing and clinical areas.

A portrait of Dr. Larry Sinoway is shown in front of the College of Medicine.

Sinoway steps down as Heart and Vascular Institute director

Feb 3, 2021

After 36 years at Hershey Medical Center and the College of Medicine, Dr. Larry Sinoway, distinguished professor of medicine, announced his decision to step down as director of Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute.

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