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Is There a Role for Pediatricians in “The Talk”?
A Penn LDI Study Provides Insights on the Challenges and Opportunities of Addressing Police Encounters With Their Patients
Inside Penn Medicine’s Health Care Transformation Initiatives
Chief Transformation Officer Raina Merchant Provides Overview and Insights at LDI Annual Leighton Memorial Lecture
A Novel Study Quantifies Who is Missing from Cardiovascular Clinical Research
LDI Researchers Analyzed Ethnicity, Race, and Sex‐Specific Population Participation in Clinical Trials
Testimony: Restricting Youth Access to Nicotine and Tobacco Products
Delivered to Philadelphia City Council
Federal Medicaid Spending Cuts: The Wrong Ways and the Right Ways
As Congress Considers Cuts to Medicaid Spending, Policymakers Should Better Account for States’ Ability to Pay
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Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread
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Our 500+ Fellows are national experts and thought leaders who bridge all of Penn’s schools, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Diondra Straiton, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry/Center for Mental Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine
Kathryn Bowles, PhD, RN
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Science, Penn Nursing
- van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence, Penn Nursing
Matthew Klebanoff, MD
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Perelman School of Medicine
Suzanne Tham, MSW
- PhD Student, School of Social Policy & Practice
Claudio Lucarelli, PhD
- Associate Professor, Health Care Management, Wharton School
Angela K. Shen, ScD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
What We Do
As Penn’s hub for health care delivery, health policy, and population health, we connect and amplify over 500 Fellows across the University, and train the next generation of researchers.
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