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Larry-Baronner

State hospital leader receives national quality spirit award

8/30/18

Larry Baronner, rural health systems manager and deputy director at the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health, received the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project Spirit Award on July 18 at a national meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, convened by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

David-Vanness

Vanness joins Department of Health Policy and Administration

8/24/18

David Vanness has joined the Department of Health Policy and Administrator as a faculty member. Vanness comes from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he served as associate professor of population health sciences. His teaching and research focus on assessing the value of health care and policy interventions.

Jen-Kraschnewski

Community-Engaged Research in the Penn State Context

8/14/18

This episode in the “Ask the Experts” series features Dr. Jen Kraschnewski from the Penn State College of Medicine in her role as co-chair of the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Community-Engaged Research Core. Kraschnewski discusses community-engaged research, why it is important, where it is happening at Penn State, and how to learn more about it.

Thomas-Hess

A new approach to treating mental health conditions

8/1/18

The latest episode in the “Ask the Experts” series features Thomas Hess, senior vice president and chief financial officer at biotechnology company Genomind, who discusses a new approach to treatment and therapy of mental health conditions using genome testing.

Keith Benson

Penn Staters lead, attend 2018 AUPHA Annual Meeting

6/12/18

Penn State alumnus Keith Benson is wrapping up his year as board chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration as the organization holds its 2018 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Students pose next to Karolinska Institute sign

Students travel to Sweden to study HR practices

5/24/18

Penn State students interested in human resource management and health care recently had a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the Swedish culture and explore the country’s human resource management and health care systems.

Group of kindergarten-aged children

Ties between oral vocabulary and STEM difficulties to be investigated

5/21/18

Young children with early vocabulary difficulties in turn often have difficulty with reading during the primary grades. Penn State researchers will investigate if these oral vocabulary difficulties also lead to math and sciences difficulties throughout elementary school in a three-year, $1.5 million National Science Foundation-funded research project.

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