June 28 2020: College Fellow David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, brings a unique perspective to his review of the medications currently being tested to treat COVID-19
Against epic odds, Dr. David Fajgenbaum found a drug that saved his own life. Then a global pandemic hit. Now his lab has devoted nearly all of its resources to aiding doctors fighting the novel coronavirus.
June 24 2020: College Fellow John H. Holmes, PhD, FACE, FACMI, gave the inaugural lecture in the National Library of Medicine’s Ada Lovelace Computational Health Lecture Series, “AI in the Age of COVID-19: Computational Tools for a Pandemic”
June 19 2020: College President and CEO Dr. George Wohlreich discussed how the College is preparing to reopen in The Inquirer
Cultural institutions have done the nitty-gritty of planning to reopen post-pandemic. You’ll be required to wear a mask at most places. At the Franklin Institute, it’s one family in the Giant Heart at a time.
June 12 2020: College Fellow Joseph Greenberg, DMD, discusses the importance of dental hygiene during the pandemic
Inside Dental Hygiene spoke to Joseph Greenberg, DMD, a private practitioner in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and longtime educator, about recent assertions that dental hygiene is a nonessential service.
June 8 2020: College Trustee and Fellow Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, discusses how people of color are not being adequately represented in studies about potential COVID-19 treatments
Despite making up a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths, minorities are not seeing adequate enrollment in clinical trials for potential coronavirus treatments.
June 5 2020: College Fellow Rhea Powell, MD, MPH, participates in “White Coats for Black Lives” (Source: The Philadelphia Voice)
Doctors, nurses show solidarity with protesters calling for an end to systemic justice and police brutality
May 20 2020: College Fellows Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSHPR, and Jeffrey Hom, MD, MPH, recently appeared on a list of key individuals in the City’s Health Department who are leading the COVID-19 response
The team has been working nearly 24/7 since the pandemic landed.
May 14 2020: College Fellow Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, discusses the innovative nature of nurses, providing examples from the nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic at Penn
May 13 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke to Philadelphia Magazine about the misinformation about COVID-19 circulating
May 13 2020: College Fellow Generosa Grana, MD, appeared on FOX29 to report on the decline of outpatient visits and screenings that have been missed during the COVID-19 pandemic
The number of visits to ambulatory practices has declined 60 percent since mid-March, according a study,