Summer 2016

Personalized? Or Individualized? Genomic, perhaps? Or Precision? What to name this new kind of medicine?

Penn’s Center for Global Health was launched by the School of Medicine in 2004 in response to requests from Penn’s medical students who had formed an interest group in global health. This year, the center invited students, residents, and fel­lows to submit photographs illustrating domestic or global health experiences.

Surrounded by beautiful views in the Jordan Center atrium, returning alumni were treated to a wonderful view of the next generation of medical leaders

Penn joins a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to fight cancer, and much, much more.

The surroundings were different this year for members of the graduating class, but the anticipation and excitement were the same.

Pennsylvania Hospital houses a work by a painter once referred to as “the American Raphael.”

What we at Penn Medicine don’t get the chance to write about very often is what it’s like to see it from the other side: as a patient, just trying to figure out what’s wrong – and to get better. Fortunately (well, not really), I’ve now got one such story to relate.

With the recent creation of the Penn Center for Precision Medicine, the Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Penn is laying the groundwork to advance options for cancer patients and beyond.

The behavior of Ants can be changed through epigenetic chemicals—would that work for other animals as well?

First-year medical students learn how to acknowledge patients’ beliefs as they treat their bodies.

An advocate of medical humanities believes that poetry can offer glimpses of the deeper meaning of a physician’s work – exhausting hours and all.