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Three DBEI Faculty Members To Be Honored with ATS Awards
February 25, 2025
Drs. Christie, Halpern, and Harhay are to be honored by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) for excellence in research, humanism, and mentorship. Awards will be presented at the 2025 ATS International Conference in San Francisco (May 18-21, 2025).
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AI ‘Scribe’ Reduces Clinician Workload, Improves Patient Interaction
February 24, 2025
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, and Penn Medicine researchers conducted a study demonstrating how an AI-powered scribe technology reduces clinician workload, enhances patient interactions, and decreases after-hours documentation, improving efficiency and easing physician burnout.
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Rising Temps, Rising Risks: How Climate Change Impacts Diabetes
February 19, 2025
Rising temperatures pose serious risks for people with type 2 diabetes, increasing the likelihood of heat exhaustion, blood sugar fluctuations, and cardiac issues. Charles Leonard, PharmD, MSCE, FISPE addresses these health threats with Yale Climate Connections.
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New Report Examines the Risks of Co-Prescribing Opioids and Benzodiazepines to Veterans
February 14, 2025
A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report, involving DBEI experts Brian Strom, MD, MPH and John Farrar, MD, PhD, finds that co-prescribing opioids and benzodiazepines to veterans increases the risk of death, highlighting critical implications for veteran health care.
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M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
February 7, 2025
Muscio Kit Delgado, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology, has been elected to the ASCI. His research blends behavioral and data science with insights gleaned from practicing emergency medicine in an urban trauma center to help promote smarter health choices and policy.
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Celebrating Informatics Excellence: Johnson and Shen Recognized by ACMI
February 4, 2025
Kevin B. Johnson, and Li Shen—faculty in the Division of Informatics—were recognized by the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium.
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Using AI to Uncover Hospital Patients’ Long COVID Care Needs
January 16, 2025
In a new study, Yong Chen, PhD and colleagues at Penn Medicine, used AI and latent transfer learning to analyze long-COVID data, identifying four patient sub-populations with distinct care needs, improving hospital resource allocation and tailoring treatment for diverse patient populations.
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AI Tool Analyzes 30K Data Points Per Medical Imaging Pixel in Cancer Search
January 15, 2025
Mingyao Li, PhD and her Penn Medicine colleagues developed an AI-powered tool called MISO (Multi-modal Spatial Omics) that can detect cell-level characteristics of cancer by looking at data from extremely small pieces of tissue—some as small as the width of five human hairs.
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Vaccine Communication in a Polarized World: Dr. Morris Interviewed in Undark Magazine
January 10, 2025
Amid rising polarization and misinformation, Jeffrey Morris, PhD, of Penn Medicine tackles vaccine skepticism with evidence-based insights. In an interview with Undark, he advocates respectful dialogue that considers social and political dynamics.
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