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How a well-being coach is helping health care workers battle burnout
Visual concept of the brain’s mental health.

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How a well-being coach is helping health care workers battle burnout

In an effort to combat work-related stress among health care workers, a new well-being coach on hand to help staff unload some of their mental burdens and de-stress at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.

From Penn Medicine News

A lipid nanoparticle delivers an mRNA cure for preeclampsia
Kelsey Swingle working in a lab.

Kelsey Swingle at work in the lab of Michael Mitchell.

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A lipid nanoparticle delivers an mRNA cure for preeclampsia

Doctoral student Kelsey Swingle developed a lipid nanoparticle that delivers an mRNA therapeutic that reduces maternal blood pressure through the end of gestation and improves fetal health and blood circulation in the placenta.

Melissa Pappas

Climate crisis meets nursing know-how
Roxana Chicas speaking at a Penn Nursing lecture.

Roxana Chicas speaking at Penn Nursing about her research focused on heat stress among migrant workers.

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Climate crisis meets nursing know-how

How nurses at Penn are innovating public health care for a changing world.

Christina Hernandez-Sherwood

Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic
Members of Penn’s African Health Clinic.

From check-ups to managing diabetes, treating common illnesses, and X-raying injured extremities, the care team handles a variety of patients’ needs right from the off-site clinics.

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Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic

For the last two years, the Perelman School of Medicine has partnered with the African Family Health Organization to offer weekly family-medicine/primary care clinics for recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.

Alex Gardner

A champion for period products in Pennsylvania schools
An adult giving a high school student menstrual pads.

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A champion for period products in Pennsylvania schools

Kayla Cook ensures that all middle and high school students in a Lancaster school district have access to dispensing bins, which hold tampons, pads, and liners in every individual women’s or gender-neutral bathroom stall.

From Penn Medicine News

Q&A with Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame
Karen Verderame sits at her desk holding a tarantula.

Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame has 17 tarantulas, vinegaroons (whip-tail scorpions), true scorpions, hissing cockroaches, giant cockroaches, three bearded dragons, a snake, hermit crabs, chinchillas, two dogs, and three cats. 

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Q&A with Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame

Verderame, an outreach educator at the School of Veterinary Medicine, discusses her kinship with misunderstood animals, introducing students to veterinary medicine, the black market for insects, her favorite part of her job, and the dreaded spotted lanternfly.
The draw of internal medicine at Penn Vet
Veterinarians Daniela Luethy and Austin Castellano examine a goat.

Penn Vet’s Daniela Luethy and fourth-year student Austin Castellano perform a physical exam on a patient.

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The draw of internal medicine at Penn Vet

At Penn Vet, internal medicine and specialty sections, including ultrasound and cardiology, diagnostic pathology, and radiology, work together to provide the most efficient information and the highest level of care for a patient.

From Penn Vet