Summer 2015

The Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery can help kids move beyond a horrifying event and avoid toxic stress.

The relationship between the two Philadelphia physicians who shared plans about founding a medical school became more than a little strained.

A recent study finds that being near greened vacant lots lowers the heart rates of neighborhood residents.

Medical Alumni Weekend happens every year – but this time around, the birthday of the Perelman School of Medicine made things more special.

An alumnus makes use of his experience and expertise to fashion a medical thriller.

Penn Medicine’s faculty and staff are creating and adapting information technology to serve clinicians, researchers, and patients more effectively.

The number of famous and re­spected physicians who have been cele­brated in the daily comics must be very few – indeed, Ravdin may be the only one!

Pack 159 graduating Penn Med students and their very interested families into an auditorium used primarily for more sedate academic matters, and there’s bound to be anxiety, anticipation, excitement, and – finally – exhilaration.

Also inside: Penn Medicine welcomes Lancaster General, a historically long kidney donation chain, and much more.

When people think of the future of medicine, they look to the students of Penn’s Perelman School: brilliant, driven, dedicated to solving the world’s greatest medical challenges.