Sep 30, 2020
Dr. Takehiko Dohi, faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine since August 2017, passed away on Sept. 25. He was a member of the transplant team who specialized in liver transplantation, live donor liver transplantation and complex hepatobiliary surgery.
Sep 29, 2020
Faculty at the College of Medicine were awarded 175 grants totaling more than $52 million between May and July to fund their research studies.
Sep 15, 2020
September is Women in Medicine Month, and Penn State College of Medicine's chapter of the American Medical Women's Association is celebrating the many accomplishments of exceptional physicians at Penn State Health.
Sep 10, 2020
With more than 109,000 people on the transplant waiting list nationwide, the need for organ donors remains great. A Penn State Health transplant surgeon explains how donors and recipients are kept safe during the COVID-19 pandemic in this week’s Medical Minute.
Sep 9, 2020
One year after heart transplant surgery, Brandon Seiber, 22, of Enola is back playing basketball. Our heart transplant team boasts the highest one-year survival rate of all transplant centers statewide. Learn how our team helped Brandon.
Sep 3, 2020
Ruth Vega, Hershey Medical Center’s 2000th kidney transplant recipient, is living proof of the difference that the transplant team’s dedicated work makes.
Aug 25, 2020
Today is special. Six hours ago, doctors removed the tube that has been helping Mya Beckner breathe since she was months old. Now her family heads into a new unknown – a normal life.
Aug 19, 2020
Dr. Faisal Aziz, chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, will begin a three-year term as medical director for the Mid-Atlantic Vascular Study Group of the Vascular Quality Initiative this fall.
Aug 10, 2020
Hernias can prevent people from engaging in activities that they need to or love to do, and ignoring symptoms can sometimes lead to serious complications. Dr. Eric Pauli, chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, answers questions about hernias, from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment.
Jun 30, 2020
Many Penn State College of Medicine faculty members have been promoted and/or awarded tenure effective July 1, 2020.