Mar 27, 2012
Part 11 – A Perfect Match Penn State and the Medical Center benefit from their close ties to each other. The Medical Center budget is nearly one-third of Penn State’s […]
Mar 20, 2012
Part 10 – Pioneers in Simulation The College of Medicine was an early adopter of clinical simulation. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30sega1s6vE] Feel free to share these posts with your colleagues, friends and family. […]
Mar 13, 2012
Part 9 – The College Of Medicine “It’s a leap of faith to come to a medical school that consists of a hole in the ground, and three doctors.” A […]
Feb 28, 2012
Part 7 – Finding Good People The challenges of recruiting clinical faculty in a rural setting are addressed. Dr. Harrell wanted people who were full of fire and wanted to […]
Feb 21, 2012
Part 6 – George T. Harrell Dr. George T. Harrell is selected to lead the creation of the medical center and school. This was Dr. Harrell’s second medical center project. […]
Feb 17, 2012
Robert Harbaugh, MD, ’78 has a unique vantage point as a member of an NFL subcommittee studying the long-term effects of concussions on professional football players. First, Harbaugh is a well published and […]
Feb 14, 2012
Ongoing research at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center explores the effect of caesarian section on subsequent fertility. In previous studies conducted in countries throughout the world it was discovered that mothers who deliver […]
Part 16 – The Four Diamonds Fund Note: last week was Part 5, so this one seems out of synch. It is – intentionally. The 2012 THON event is this […]
Feb 13, 2012
Before medicine became so specialized or new technology so freely available, the team delivering care to a patient was small and able to communicate easily. Today, multiple professionals, including everyone from emergency physicians, surgeons, […]
Feb 10, 2012
Dr. Xuemei Huang and her team of clinicians, engineers, kinesiologists and computer scientists at Penn State have made the study of gait the focus of their research into identifying early signs of Parkinson’s disease.
