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New care plan improves outcomes for Crohn's disease complication

8/23/16

The first published combined medical and surgical care plan for managing septic perianal Crohn's disease, a serious complication that occurs in around 40 percent of Crohn's disease patients, has been developed by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. The plan and its results took more than a decade to develop and are based on patient outcomes.

Dr. Thomas Tracy Jr.

Tracy named chief medical officer at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

6/1/16

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has named Dr. Thomas Tracy Jr. to serve as chief medical officer. Tracy, who comes to Hershey by way of Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and Lifespan health system, will have responsibility for both the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Medical Group.

Hershey Medical Center facing future with certainty and innovation

2/26/16

On the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking today (Feb. 26), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine’s Dr. Craig Hillemeier told the Penn State Board of Trustees that the organization is meeting the challenges of its industry with innovation and inspiration. Hillemeier, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, chief executive officer of Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Health System, and Penn State’s senior vice president for health affairs, highlighted the organization’s performance during 2015 at the board’s meeting.

Dr. Harrell with model of Hershey and construction, 1966

A medical school and teaching hospital in the center of Pennsylvania

2/24/16

On Feb. 26, Penn State Hershey celebrates 50 years since its groundbreaking. A college of medicine and teaching hospital had not even been on the horizon for Penn State in 1963, when representatives of the Hershey Trust, a philanthropic legacy of chocolate king Milton Hershey, requested a meeting with University President Eric Walker.

Penn State Hershey has solid foundation for improving diagnosis

10/7/15

While national attention is being drawn to the issue of inaccurate or delayed medical diagnoses, Penn State Hershey has been actively addressing issues that can lead to diagnostic errors with programs from medical education through to the clinic.

Penn State World Campus student and nurse Renae Epler, at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Penn State World Campus graduates first class in online nursing master’s degree

5/5/15

The first class from Penn State’s online master of science in nursing degree will graduate May 10. “These are very high-quality students who want to be in jobs that will help train a new generation of nurses,” said Lisa Kitko, an assistant professor of nursing at Penn State. “That really speaks to their commitment to the profession and to nursing.”

Medha Makhlouf

Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, founding director announced at Dickinson Law

4/7/15

Penn State’s Dickinson Law announced the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, a collaboration between the Law School and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The clinic will provide low-income patients and patient-families with critical legal assistance under the supervision of Medha D. Makhlouf, the founding director and clinical professor of law.

Probing Question: Why is it so hard to lose weight?

11/2/10

If you're an adult American, chances are pretty good that at one time or another you've tried to diet. Chances are also good that, despite your efforts, you've found yourself standing on a scale and looking at a certain number with frustration and disbelief. It's the same number as last week, and the week before, even though you've been cutting back on sweets and going to the gym an extra day. Why won't that bulge budge?

Probing Question: How do schizophrenia and DID differ?

10/26/10

"What will I have for dinner?"

"Is it going to rain later?"

"I wonder what she meant by that."

Questions or comments like these silently passing through our minds reflect how most of us think; they're normal. When the comments heard internally are the voices of other people, however, then psychiatrists suspect schizophrenia.

Catching Up with Robert Gabbay

10/26/10

What led you to specialize in the study of obesity and diabetes?

I started as a basic science researcher with a Ph.D. in biochemistry and was intrigued by the fact that, of all the hormones, insulin was responsible for the biggest health issue and was the least understood at the time. Over time, it has been a great journey learning about and working primarily on diabetes, but in the context of projects that involve all sorts of different disciplines—from molecular aspects to public health issues—essentially from the molecule to Medicare.

Probing Question: What is a lucid dream?

8/24/10

Have you ever had a dream that just didn't feel like a dream—where, like Alice in Wonderland, you had trouble telling fiction from reality? Perhaps you even felt like you had control over what was happening, as if you were directing a film produced entirely in your imagination. If so, you most likely experienced what sleep scientists like Edward Bixler call a "lucid dream."

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