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Department name change recognizes expanding role of anesthesiologists
It used to be that the only time you would see an anesthesiologist was in the operating room to help control your pain levels while undergoing surgery. Today’s practice of pain medicine looks much...
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Penn State Hershey team updates from Ghana
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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Penn State Hershey team in Ghana update
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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Penn State Hershey Ghana team update, Feb.9
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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Penn State Hershey Ghana team update, Feb. 11
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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‘Four Diamonds is absolutely instrumental for testing novel ideas’
Four Diamonds support brings new pediatric cancer researchers to Penn State College of Medicine Editor’s Note: Penn State’s THON Weekend is Feb. 19-21. Students will dance for 46-hours to support...
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Pediatric survivorship program provides support after treatment
Penn State Hershey program is supported by Four Diamonds. Each year, as the rate of children cured from pediatric cancers increases, so does the need for ongoing care of the young survivors. Six years...
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Penn State Hershey Ghana team update, Feb. 25
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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New technology center builds on promises of College groundbreaking 50 years ago
We’re all walking around with at least six billion pieces of information in our personal genome that, as the field of personalized medicine grows, can provide valuable clues to future health. When...
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Penn State Hershey Ghana team update, Feb. 26
Editor’s note: Penn State Hershey clinical participants (senior medical students, residents, nurse practitioner students and faculty) are currently in rural Ghana to support and provide training for...
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Recollections of an alumnus
Editor’s Note: This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Penn State College of Medicine groundbreaking. The first class of students entered the College’s doors in 1967. Dr. Owen B. Ellington is a...
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Student-run free clinic to open at Tyrone this Saturday
Amidst clinical rotations and long days of studying, third-year Penn State College of Medicine students at the University Park Regional Campus will soon be putting their education into practice in a...
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Remembering Robert Bonneau
Robert Bonneau had a passion for Penn State College of Medicine and its students. Through his 25 year career with Penn State, he served in a number of roles that advanced both the education and...
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Medical school leaders convene in Hershey to discuss innovation
The future of medical education was the focus of discussion at a conference in Hershey this week. In conjunction with the American Medical Association, Penn State College of Medicine convened the 32...
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Penn State collaboration to bring malaria power bar to children in need
There’s an awful calculus that takes place in malaria stricken regions of the world. Due to malnutrition, children in these areas often suffer from iron deficiency anemia, which can lead to serious...
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Match Day 2016 video and photos
Fourth-year medical students across the country discovered where they will spend their residencies in an annual tradition known as Match Day. For 136 students at Penn State College of Medicine, their...
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Epilepsy Monitoring Unit celebrates 25 years
Like many mothers, Lorraine Schaeffer wanted to give her daughter every childhood opportunity possible, from play dates to participation in school and community activities. Her epilepsy, however, stood...
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Addiction symposium highlights Penn State research collaboration
Why do many gastric bypass surgery patients develop alcohol and substance abuse problems? Do rare genetic variants influence antisocial drug dependence? Can a phone app reduce heavy drinking in college...
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Clues to child abuse: Dr. Lori Frasier on the frontline of new training
“If it’s never on your radar screen, you’re never going to see it.” That’s the philosophy that drives Dr. Lori Frasier in her efforts to better train pediatricians and other clinicians to be aware of...
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New device offers option for atrial fibrillation patients
A new device and procedure now offered at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center may be an alternative to taking blood thinners for patients who have the most common form of atrial...
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