Michael Restuccia
The CIO 100 Awards have announced Penn Medicine as a 2020 CIO 100 Award Winner for integrating a telemedicine model to run “business as usual”. The awards recognize innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in IT. Penn Medicine successfully scaled patient care delivery via telemedicine within the electronic health record (EHR) and patient portal, consolidating to a single, integrated telemedicine EHR platform, and educated providers and patients regarding the use of telemedicine, eliminating substantial costs along the way. Michael Restuccia, Penn Medicine’s chief information officer and senior vice president, explained that, “telehealth continues to gain momentum in becoming a mainstream service delivery model,” and credited collaboration between providers, clinicians and Information Services for the achievement.
Melanie Pellecchia, PhD, Edward Brodkin, MD, Shinjae Chung, PhD
The Eagles Autism Foundation funded three Penn Medicine projects for exploratory work in the field of autism. Melanie Pellecchia, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry with the Center for Mental Health, received a $400,000 grant to study an evidence-based intervention for infants and toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Edward Brodkin, MD, an associate professor of Psychiatry, received $400,000 for a randomized controlled trial of a cognitive-behavioral therapy program to improve social functioning in adults on the autism spectrum. Shinjae Chung, PhD, an assistant professor of Neuroscience, received a $400,000 award to study neural circuit and molecular mechanisms underlying sleep disturbances in ASD.
Laura Dember, MD
Laura Dember, MD, a professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, received the National Kidney Foundation’s 2020 J. Michael Lazarus Award, which recognizes individuals whose research has yielded novel insights related to renal replacement therapy.
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Laura Dember, MD
The Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) of the American Statistical Association selected Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, an associate Professor of Biostatistics, as a winner of its 2020 Mid-Career Award. The award recognizes leaders in health care policy and health services research who have made outstanding contributions through methodological or applied work and who show a promise of continued excellence at the frontier of statistical practice.
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Hongzhe Li, PhD
Hongzhe Li, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and vice chair for integrative research in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, has won the 2020 American Statistical Association’s Philadelphia Chapter Award in Research Excellence.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.