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The University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center Awarded a $6.5 Million CDC Grant

October 15, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center has received a $6.5 million CDC grant to advance community-based prevention research, focusing on improving shared decision-making for older cancer patients. This five-year project will study interventions tailored to patients’ needs, enhancing outcomes in Philadelphia and beyond.

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Questioning Restrictions on Physical Activity for Risk of Preterm Birth

September 18, 2024

Penn undergraduates assist Beth Leong Pineles, MD, PhD with a study of activity restriction during pregnancy with the goal of “deimplementation” in the Penn Medicine system and ultimately nationwide.

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Sunni Mumford, PhD

September 9, 2024

Dr. Mumford is renowned for her research on modifiable dietary and lifestyle factors affecting reproductive health, which has informed guidelines for women, men, and couples. Her work uses couples-based approaches […]

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Elizabeth Lowenthal, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Lowenthal is a pediatric HIV clinical specialist and epidemiologist whose research work is primarily focused on pediatric global health. Much of her research relates to the care and treatment […]

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Nadim Mahmud, MD, MS, MPH, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Mahmud is a transplant hepatologist and clinical epidemiologist whose research focuses on developing risk prediction tools to improve clinical decision making for patients with chronic liver disease. He is […]

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Joel M Gelfand, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Joel M. Gelfand MD MSCE is the James J. Leyden Professor of Clinical Investigation, and Professor (with tenure) of Dermatology and Epidemiology, Director (co-founding) of the Center for Clinical Sciences […]

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Jeffrey Stephen Gerber, MD, PhD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Werner and Gertrude Henle Endowed Chair in the Division […]

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Kelly D. Getz, PhD, MPH

September 9, 2024

Dr. Getz is a pediatric cancer epidemiologist whose research aims to improve outcomes for children and young adults with cancer. Her research has focused on understanding the occurrence and subsequent […]

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Robert Gross, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Gross is board certified in infectious diseases and epidemiology and is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology in the Division of Infectious Diseases, with a secondary appointment in the Division […]

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James Guevara, MD, MPH

September 9, 2024

James Guevara, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics & Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital […]

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Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics

September 9, 2024

Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. is the John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and a practicing critical care […]

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Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD

September 9, 2024

Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD, uses healthcare data to generate real-world evidence about the health effects of prescription drugs. His team has studied serious health consequences of drug-drug interactions involving high-risk […]

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Stefanie N. Hinkle, PhD

September 9, 2024

Stefanie N. Hinkle, PhD, is a nutritional and perinatal epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she serves in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, […]

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Susan L. Furth, MD, PhD

September 9, 2024

Currently Dr. Furth is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health multi-center observational cohort study in progressive chronic kidney disease in children (CKiD). This study, now in its […]

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Jinbo Chen, PhD

September 9, 2024

Dr. Chen’s research focuses primarily on the development of statistical methods for designing and analyzing two-phase epidemiologic studies, on methodological and collaborative work in genetic-association studies of complex diseases, and […]

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Aimin Chen, MD, PhD

September 9, 2024

Dr. Chen is a senior environmental epidemiologist who focuses on perinatal and pediatric outcomes and a variety of exposures: lead, mercury, cadmium, DDT, isoflavones, flame retardants, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), air […]

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Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Denburg’s research focuses on bone and mineral metabolism in childhood kidney diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD), glomerular disease, and urinary stone disease. In particular, she has pursued translational […]

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John T. Farrar, MD, PhD

September 9, 2024

Dr. Farrar has been involved in clinical research for more than 30 years, with a major focus on the study of the efficacy of pain therapeutics and on novel methodology […]

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Amanda Hyre Anderson, PhD, MPH

September 9, 2024

Dr. Anderson is professor of epidemiology and medicine at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); vice chair for research in the Department of Epidemiology at The UAB School of […]

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Joshua F. Baker, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Baker’s research in rheumatology focuses on body composition, skeletal muscle health, obesity, metabolic health, disease activity assessment, and disease progression among patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. His work […]

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Kurt T. Barnhart, MD, MSCE

September 9, 2024

Dr. Kurt Barnhart is the Vice Chair for Research and the Director of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center in the Perelman School of Medicine. He received his medical degree […]

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Ellen Caniglia, ScD

September 9, 2024

Dr. Caniglia is a perinatal and HIV epidemiologist who works to improve health outcomes among pregnant people and their children, and among people with HIV. Her work utilizes methods for […]

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New in JNCI: Pandemic not associated with treatment initiation delays for patients with advanced cancer

January 12, 2022

Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, co-led a new JNCI paper that studied >14k patients with advanced cancer in a national EHR database to show that time from diagnosis to treatment and choice of therapy […]