June 30 2020: College Trustee and Fellow Priya Mammen, MD, MPH, discusses how important she finds community support and family connection through activities like dining out but also the need to do so with attention and safety as the pandemic is ongoing
A physician says outdoor dining should be safe with extreme caution, while a resident of the suburbs argues that safety parameters vary by neighborhood.
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 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.
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 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,
May 9 2020: College Fellow and Trustee Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, made Philadelphia Magazine’s list of “8 Trailblazing Women in Philly’s Health-Care Revolution”
The forces driving Philly medicine are increasingly female. Meet the women at the forefront of the movement.
May 9 2020: Dr. René Najera, epidemiologist and editor of the College’s HistoryofVaccines.org, appeared on NPR
They see these demonstrations as a way to form political alliances that promote their movement.
