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The science that led to Moderna’s and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines began with a Penn Medicine discovery. Read about the crucial breakthrough here: https://bit.ly/3mwpbsh

With the development of not one, but two, promising COVID-19 vaccines based on Penn Medicine research, the world is on the threshold of a new chapter in the fight against the pandemic. Join us tonight for a virtual town hall which will focus on the latest science in COVID-19 treatment and prevention, the state of the Health System, and insight on the measures including vaccination and more stringent distancing that can see us through the coming months. Register here: https://bit.ly/3ajOxY6

Doctors are worn down by paperwork and long hours, forced to focus on computer screens instead of their patients, plagued by feelings of eroding autonomy, traumatized by a pandemicand trained to endure suffering with stoicism. But an initiative created by Perelman School of Medicine alumni and faculty is testing whether the visual arts help revive their well-being. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3qwlXs7

Perelman School of Medicine Associate Dean Judy A. Shea, PhD, recently discussed everything from medical education in the time of COVID-19 to how alumni can get involved with her work. Read here Q&A here: https://bit.ly/3fQwhWR

Computer-augmented brains, cures to blindness, and rebuilding the brain after injury all sound like science fiction. But H. Isaac Chen, M’06, an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, has been working toward using these exciting new technologic advances to address lasting neurological disease. Read more here: https://www.pennmedicine.org//science-fiction-meets-neuro-

Check out the latest performance by the Penn Med Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Márquez's Danzon No. 2, featuring Perelman School of Medicine student Andrea Jin: https://www.facebook.com/watch/

Cure ID, an app developed by the FDA, could help with the discovery of Covid-19 treatments. The Perelman School of Medicine’s David Fajgenbaum, M’12, has been sifting through thousands of papers on Covid-19 treatment data to power the Cure ID app, keeping the number crunching up to date so that doctors around the world can keep up with emerging best practices as they combat the coronavirus. Read more here: https://edition.cnn.com//fda-cure-id-app-wellne/index.html

New students entering the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania were welcomed into the Penn community last week with a virtual orientation. Get to know these future medical leaders

To take care of yourself, first and foremost you actually have to recognize the space that you take up in every single space in which you exist. writes Maryam Alausa, M’23, in her letter to the incoming medical class. Read her whole piece in Appendx, the Perelman School of Medicine's student run magazine, here: https://www.apenndx.com/feel-free-to-not-listen-to-me-i-ra/

Appendx, the Perelman School of Medicine's student run magazine, recently launched their orientation issue, To the MS1s, which features letters to the incoming class. Read the letter from the Appendx editors about starting medical school in a COVID-19 world here: https://www.apenndx.com/to-the-ms1s-from-the-editors/

Patients are increasingly seeking diagnoses and treatment advice from social media sites like Reddit, according to a study presented at the Association for Healthcare Social Media virtual meeting. The unique structure of Reddit is an optimal platform to crowdsource medical opinions, says Perelman School of Medicine student Perelman School of Medicine Brian Chu. Read more here: https://www.healio.com//patients-increasingly-turn-to-soci

Cardiothoracic surgery resident Jason Han wrote about the responsibility to wear a mask in public. The mindset I hope to carry in wearing masks as well as in taking care of my patients is to do that which I believe is right, not for any other reason than that it is the right thing to do. Read his whole op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer here: https://www.inquirer.com//coronavirus-mask-wearing-doctor-

Medicine is typically an intimate interaction with one-on-one conversations and physical exams behind closed doors. Christopher Magoon, M’19, writes about how COVID-19 has changed how doctors including intensive care units care for patients while social distancing via telehealth. Read more here: https://thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-year-zero/

Penn Medicine is honored to have, once again, been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation--and 1st in Pennsylvania--by U.S. News & World Report. Today, we celebrate the commitment of our staff, and the patients who entrust their care to us. https://bit.ly/306anZv

Dr. Luke Messac, GR'16, is featured on NBC News for receiving help with his undergraduate thesis from Dr. Anthony Fauci. Messac received his Ph.D. in History an...d Sociology of Science from Penn Arts & Sciences in 2016 and his M.D. from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. Dr. Messac is currently a Resident in Emergency Medicine at Brown University. "For a lot of us in medicine, [Dr. Fauci] is just such a major voice. He edits one the major medical textbooks, he’s had thousands of publications and he’s fought some of the worst diseases we have," Messac said. "A lot of people in medicine trust him, so hearing his voice was very comforting during a very scary time and still is." Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Penn Alumni

As health care professionals continue to rise to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn Medicine has worked diligently, expeditiously, and compassionately... to organize resources for frontline workers. Part of [the new platform] PennMedicineTogether is giving people the resources to stay resilient, says Lisa Bellini of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, recognizing that we are all going to deal with the anxiety and uncertainty of the virus in different ways.

Perelman School of Medicine professor Ian Krantz, MD, has turned his obsession with classic cars into a new mission to provide help and hope to children born with rare genetic diagnoses and to support research that will identify the best possible treatments. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2ZFXeVE

Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alum and Penn Medicine physician is using his own personal experience to help identify drugs that may save the life of COVID-19 patients. https://cnn.it/38agpKY