Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome: Nina’s Story
Debilitated by AMPS, 13-year-old Nina entered CHOP in a wheelchair. Six weeks later, she finished a personalized treatment program and walked out unassisted.
Karen Brooks
Philly-based freelance writer/editor with more than 15 years of experience in feature, news, and development writing for print and online media. Specializing in nonprofit, higher education, and healthcare industries.
Flow Motion
Courses across Penn Arts & Sciences show how immersion enhances a liberal arts education.
Hidden Histories Revealed
Students in a Penn course taught by Professor of English Heather Love and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Brooke O’Harra bring queer archival materials to life.
Making What's Next in Medicine
Since 2017, the FDA has approved more than two dozen new therapies with roots at Penn Medicine — almost half of which are first-in-class for their indications. Becoming a hub for drug research and development took a lot more than luck.
Ancient Medicine in Today’s World
Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in Penn's Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.
Students on Heritage
Fellows of Penn's 2022-2023 Undergraduate Humanities Forum share their research on “The World We Inherit.”
Without Missing a Beat
Lankenau physicians perform the first-ever robotic coronary artery bypass grafting surgery on a pregnant patient.
Fortifying the Future
In order for students to benefit from good teachers, those teachers must be recruited, prepared, developed, and retained. At a time when the nation has at least 36,000 teacher vacancies, it is challenging to do all four.
For Your Information
Penn's new research institute aims to improve medical communication.
Representation Matters
Penn Medicine recently welcomed its largest and most diverse intern class ever.
Insight, In Hand
An integrated four-year ultrasound curriculum helps Perelman School of Medicine students build competence and confidence in the classroom and the clinic.
Locked Down and Opening Up
In his new book, Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at Penn, highlights the online diaries shared by Wuhan residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partnered, but Still Poor
Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty.
HUP's New Family Caregiver Center: A Place for Patients’ Loved Ones to Recharge
HUP is one of only 22 U.S. hospitals with a formal family caregiver facility—and they are about to open a second.
Forgetting Doesn’t Heal
Stephanie Gibson, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, explores monuments of trauma in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic.
The Next Generation of Primary Care
The Measey Primary Care Pathway Program offers Penn medical students enhanced clinical experiences, research and mentorship opportunities, courses and workshops, and community engagement activities designed to draw them to primary care specialties.
Space into Place
In his new book, historian Cheikh Anta Babou captures the vitality of the Senegalese Murid diaspora.
Whether Forecasting
Psychology Professor Joseph Kable studies the brain activity that drives decision-making.
Under Watch
Hajer Al-Faham, a doctoral candidate in political science, finds that disproportionate surveillance of American Muslims stifles academic research.
Why the U.S. Needs More Black Physicians
Medicine's race gap alienates patients and providers alike.
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