A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline Working with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, University City District’s workforce development program, Penn Medicine is creating pathways to science careers for local jobseekers. As COVID-19 testing has ramped up at Penn, a trained staff was needed to take samples from patients and process them in the lab. The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative (WPSI) has helped meet that need. (Image: Dan Burke)
Ten years ago, University City District a partnership among local anchor institutions including Penn, small businesses, and neighborhood residents founded the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative (WPSI). The Skills Initiative connects Philadelphians who are under- or unemployed to the region’s major employers, in an effort to move city residents into higher wage, secure careers, from which they have been historically disconnected.
New research at Penn shows that a single head injury could lead to dementia later in life. This risk further increases as the number of head injuries sustained by an individual increases. The findings also suggest stronger associations of head injury with risk of dementia among women compared to among men and among white as compared to among Black populations.
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Jeff Wood Jeff Wood has been named regional director of laboratories for the Saint Alphonsus Health System. He will be responsible for all aspects of laboratory operations across Idaho and Oregon and play a role in the health system’s COVID-19 testing strategy and operations implementation. He comes to Saint Alphonsus after working as area operations manager for the Idaho and Eastern Washington regions for Numotion in Meridian. He also has more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles for Interpath Laboratory in Pendleton, Oregon, leading more than 20 lab managers and 300 employees in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska. A graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in medical technology, Wood was raised in Oregon and moved to the Treasure Valley three years ago. Robert Saeid Farivar Also, Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar M.D., Ph.D., the first heart surgeon in the United States to perform a Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement procedure, has been named medical director
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PHILADELPHIA Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues have been on the rise across the nation, but many struggle to access the care they need. Collaborative care a proven approach for improving psychiatric care combats this issue by integrating mental health professionals into the primary care setting. Penn Medicine s collaborative care program, Penn Integrated Care (PIC), utilizes a centralized resource center to facilitate intake, triage, and referral management for all patients with mental health needs. A new study, published today in the
Annals of Family Medicine, suggests that this approach is effective and efficient for meeting the needs of a diverse group of patients with the full range of mental health conditions seen in primary care.