Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
Ben Stanger, MD, PhD Ben Stanger, MD, PhD is a practicing Gastroenterologist at Penn Medicine. He is also the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research and professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Stanger recently published his first book From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the […]
The nursing staff at Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) has some new helping hands in the form of two robot assistants. “Roxy” and “Rosie” assist with routine non-clinical tasks, such as pickup and delivery of supplies, enabling nurses to focus on patient care. “This is one way of limiting tasks that are important to patient care […]
October 26, 2023 | by Jonathan B. Waller At the outset of Zonía Moore’s application process for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program, her father Gordon Moore suddenly died from a heart attack on the eve of a decisive step in her interviews. It wasn’t the only hardship to hit amid Moore’s pursuit of one […]
Seventeen years ago, Madaline Bell experienced one of the scariest times of her life, when her twin daughters were born prematurely at 23 weeks. Weighing 1 pound each with numerous health complications, the babies—Sydney and Payton—required care in Pennsylvania Hospital’s (PAH’s) Intensive Care Nursery (ICN). Most babies born this early only have a small chance […]
By Brittany Salerno Brittany Salerno, MPH, is project manager of Substance Use Research in Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine’s Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy and recently earned a Master of Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Here, she shares how her passion for advocacy influenced her career path. I […]
Jonathan Szeto at his White Coat Ceremony at the Perelman School of Medicine. How often do high school students get the chance to peek at a potential future in the medical field? One immersive program at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania does just that. As a first-year medical student […]
By: Abby Alten Schwartz Photo by Katie Burke Friday, October 6, 2023, was an unforgettable night for the trauma team at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) and other Penn Medicine staff. That evening, military and civilian trauma staff and dignitaries gathered to commemorate the U.S. Navy’s 248th birthday. They had no idea the event would […]
How did a kidney donation from one veteran to another originate? Morgan Slaughter saw a sign—literally. While scrolling Facebook looking for a new restaurant to try, the Air Force veteran noticed a post by Collegeville Bakery in Collegeville, PA, with a picture of a sign outside. “On social media I am always looking up restaurants […]
By: Christina Smith & Olivia Kimmel The Delancey Internal Medicine Nurse Triage Team Top row (left to right): Jasmine Gaskins, LPN; Honorio Freeland, RN; Julie Schiowitz, RN Bottom Row (left to right): Mercedes Johnson, LPN; Kaleisha Dillette, RN; Tanya Gaston, RN; Shannon White, RN Imagine you have flu-like symptoms that include a fever that has […]
When Marcy (Martha) and Bill Korson walked onto the Good Morning America stage on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, and—together with dozens of family members and friends—hugged their surprised daughter, Kate, it was the latest in a series of “full circle” moments for the family. Kate was interviewed on the ABC morning news program about her […]
