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.
May 5 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke about the mutation of viruses on Salon.com
The dominant strain in much of the world is now a more contagious variant of the original virus…
May 5 2020: College Fellow, Herbert Cushing, MD, appeared on Maine Public Radio to talk about the latest in COVID-19 updates and experiencing COVID-19
New information and research continues to emerge regarding COVID-19. We will discuss the evolving knowledge about the disease, including: a range of