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Abramson Cancer Center News in Brief

2011-10-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

The 2nd Annual Fox’s Fight Basketball Tournament and Family Fun Day took place on Saturday, June 18th. Andrew Fox’s memory was honored through an incredible turnout, an amazing athletic competition, and cards made by kids for cancer patients. From left: Leslie Richards, Senator Bob Casey, Nancy Astor Fox, and granddaughter, Robb Fox, Giorgos Karakousis, M.D., the late Andrew Fox’s wife, Bonnie...

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I-SPY 2 Trial: Accelerating Personalized Breast Cancer Therapies

2011-10-17T13:21:00.000-07:00

Dr. DeMichele with I-SPY 2 study participant Lisa Babb and research nurse, Diane Frazee, R.N., B.S.N.One of the nation’s most innovative breast cancer trials promises to offer safer, more effective personalized therapies – and deliver them at a faster rate than has yet been seen. Angela DeMichele, M.D., MSCE, Co-Leader of the Breast Cancer Research Program at the Abramson...

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Patient Profile: One Woman’s Battle Inspires an Entire Community

2011-10-17T13:20:00.001-07:00

Cancer survivors Robert and Gillian CohenGillian Cohen knows all too well how it feels to be touched by cancer: both she and her husband are cancer survivors. In August 2008, Gillian was diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. Unfortunately, hearing the words “you have cancer” wasn’t anything new to the Cohen family. Five years prior, Gillian’s husband, Robert, had been diagnosed with head and...

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Philanthropy in Action: Bequest Brings Advancement in Breast Cancer Imaging

2011-10-17T13:20:00.000-07:00

A decade ago, mammography took a leap forward when traditional film x-rays gave way to digital formats – which can be adjusted to change magnification, contrast, and other visual characteristics. Today, more than 70% of U.S. mammography centers are digital. Both mammography and MRI screening have become more technologically advanced, providing more accurate pictures to detect breast cancer. But,...

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Philadelphia Couple Raises Money for Thyroid Cancer Research

2011-08-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

(from left) Dr. Susan Mandel, Professor of Medicine & Radiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Ellen Fishman, Thyroid Cancer Survivor Honoree Joan Shey, Founder, Light of Life Foundation“When I heard Dr. Mandel talk about her team’s research and the way it could improve care for thyroid cancer patients like me, I knew I had to get...

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Joining the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease

2011-08-03T12:29:00.000-07:00

"I hope that my work with the Institute on Aging will helpeducate the public and inspire the kind of advocacy andprivate philanthropy that will make a real difference inthis fight."Orien Reid-Nix is a familiar face to many in the Philadelphia region, having graced the local airwaves for more than a quarter-century as a popular broadcast news and consumer reporter. Currently, she is an...

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The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine: Shaping the Future of American Health Care

2011-06-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

University and Penn Medicine leadership at the signing ceremony for the Perelmans' gift. From left to right: Chair of Penn's Board of Trustees David Cohen; Ronald Perelman; Raymond Perelman; Penn President, Dr. Amy Gutmann; Penn's Making History Campaign Chair George Weiss; and Dean Arthur H. Rubenstein. What’s in a name? Throughout the world, for well over a century, Wharton has meant the finest...

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Raymond and Ruth Perelman's Gift to Penn

2011-06-28T13:59:00.000-07:00

"Health Care is clearly going to change in America. Ruth and I wanted our gift to allow Penn Medicine, the best health system in the country, to bring in the best and brightest new minds into the field and train them to be the best doctors in the world." - Raymond Perelman Attending Commencement Exercises for the Perelman School of Medicine

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Dean Arthur Rubenstein and Amy Gutmann Remark on the Perelman Gift

2011-06-28T13:58:00.000-07:00

"We are thrilled that Raymond and Ruth were so farsighted in creating an unrestricted endowment for the Perelman School of Medicine. This will allow us to offer the highest level of medical research, education, and patient care in the nation. It’s not only the greatest gift our University has ever received, it’s also the greatest gift the people of Philadelphia have ever received.” ...

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Campaign Gift Creates Chair for One of Penn’s Finest Clinicians

2011-06-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

New Schaeffer Endowed Professorship Holder Dr. Jack Ende with Adele and Harold Schaeffer. One of Penn Medicine’s most highly respected clinicians was honored with an endowed professorship on May 31. Dr. Jack Ende, Chief of Medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, became the inaugural Adele and Harold Schaeffer Professor of Medicine at a ceremony in Penn’s Biomedical Research Building. For...

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Dr. Thorne Sparkman, Jr. Named Penn Medicine at Radnor Clinical Excellence Endowed Professor

2011-06-27T13:59:00.000-07:00

Another community-oriented Penn Medicine facility - and another Penn clinician - were recognized when Dr. Thorne Sparkman, Jr. was named the Penn Medicine at Radnor Clinical Excellence Endowed Professor on June 7.

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Inaugurating a New Era of Innovative Medical Research

2011-06-22T14:00:00.000-07:00

Penn President Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., standing before the TRC media wall, with NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D, Ph.D., (to her right), and Penn Medicine leadership and faculty panelists, who all are to be based in TRC. Above, from left: Shelly L. Berger, Ph.D., Director, Epigenetics Program; Dr. Carl June, Director, Translational Research Programs, Abramson Cancer Center; Mitchell A. Lazar,...

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Collaboration Is Built In

2011-06-22T13:59:00.000-07:00

TRC Architect Rafael Viñoly, UPHS CEO Ralph Muller, and Perelman School of Medicine Chief Scientific Officer Glen Gaulton.Every component of TRC was planned to support interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Key Penn Medicine leaders Dr. Glen Gaulton and UPHS Senior Vice President Kevin Mahoney partnered with Architect Rafael Viñoly to create this innovative, responsive, and spacious new...

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Two of the Nation’s Leaders in Translational Medicine

2011-06-22T13:58:00.001-07:00

NIH Director Francis S. Collins spoke at the invitation of his long-time friend and collaborator Dean Arthur Rubenstein (right). Creating the vision and infrastructure to support interdisciplinary, disease-focused medical research at Penn has been a key priority for the dean. During his tenure, Penn has reached the forefront of translational medicine with innovations such as TRC, and centers and...

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Translational Research Center Joins Research and Clinical Space

2011-06-22T13:57:00.000-07:00

Fourteen stories high and occupying more than one half million square feet, TRC is one of the largest and most prominent buildings on Penn’s campus. It significantly increases research space for the Perelman School of Medicine, and when completed will be home to 100 principal researchers and 900 staff. The opening was accelerated by a $13 million ARRA construction grant from NIH. Penn President...

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Progress Towards a Cure for AIDS

2011-06-22T13:56:00.000-07:00

“My favorite story to tell congressmen” according to keynote speaker and NIH Director Francis Collins, is about Carl June, who will be based in TRC, and his colleagues’ promising work towards a cure for AIDS. Dr. June directs translational research programs at the Abramson Cancer Center. His work follows up on a concept proved by “the Berlin patient.” This patient had both AIDS and leukemia, and...

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Mariann MacDonald Attends the Opening of the TRC

2011-06-22T13:55:00.000-07:00

“All I can say is that it is truly an amazing facility that will transform patient care by integrating research and disease management.”-- Mariann MacDonald The first donors to name a space in TRC, Mariann MacDonald, one of the founders of Endo Pharmaceuticals, and her husband Robert. The MacDonalds’ space will be dedicated to women’s cancer risk evaluation.

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Medical Alumni Weekend 2011 - Preparing Leaders and Celebrating the Penn Tradition of Achievement

2011-06-20T14:00:00.000-07:00

Each year, Medical Alumni Weekend is an opportunity to welcome alumni back to campus to reunite with classmates and share career achievements through a variety of lively and engaging activities. Events throughout the weekend included reunion dinners, the picnic, scholarship celebrations, panel discussions, and more, concluding with the Perelman School of Medicine Commencement.

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50th Reunion Class Celebrates in Style!

2011-06-20T13:59:00.000-07:00

50th reunion class member and parade marshal Robert Daroff, C’57, M’61, carries the flag as the Class of 1961 leads the 2011 parade. Six medical leaders from this distinguished class earlier presented a panel on their experiences: H. Franklin Bunn, M’61, developer of the groundbreaking A1C hemoglobin test for diabetes; Robert Daroff, C’57, M’61, a renowned neurologist; Stanley Dudrick, M’61,...

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2011 Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the First Graduating Class of Gamble Scholars

2011-06-20T13:58:00.000-07:00

On the 15th anniversary of the first graduating class of Gamble scholars, Walter Gamble, M’57, congratulates David Chacko, WG’11, M’11, one of the 164 Gamble Scholars whose medical educations were paid for by the scholarship program begun by Walter and his wife Anne Gamble. In this anniversary year, nearly 100% of all past Gamble Scholars made their own gifts to the Gamble Scholarships, while...

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Jordan Challenge Scholarship Fund

2011-06-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the leadership of the late Henry A. Jordan, M’62, RES’67, and his wife Barrie – pictured here with students Ernest Gomez, M’13, and Elliot Rabinowitz, M’12 – the Jordan Challenge has helped raise more than $2.5 million for scholarships.

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Richard Besser, M'86 Gives Keynote Address at Medical Alumni Weekend

2011-06-20T13:56:00.000-07:00

Richard E. Besser, M’86, Chief Health and Medical Editor for ABC News and third generation Penn Medicine graduate, with Rosemary Mazanet, GR’81, M’86, Chair of the Penn Medicine Campaign and Co-Chair of Penn’s Making History Campaign. Besser’s keynote presentation centered on his experiences as Acting Director of the CDC during the flu pandemic in 2009 and his recent work in Haiti with ABC News.

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Perelman School of Medicine Prize Fund Recipients

2011-06-20T13:55:00.000-07:00

Marjorie G. Ernest, CW’56 celebrates her remarkable legacy of philanthropy with new graduate Lawrence Thomas Bish, C’02, GR’08, M’11, (left) and Peter Hutchinson, M’06, and Becca Hutchinson, M’06. Dr. Bish was the inaugural recipient of a prize fund created by Miss Ernest and named for the Drs. Hutchinson. Two other new prize funds were awarded this year: Kevin Pradip Shah, WG’11, M’11, was...

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Medical Class of 1966 Names New Space in the Medical Education Center

2011-06-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

The Class of 1966 was one of the first to start a scholarship fund — now a tradition at the Perelman School of Medicine. The class fund currently supports two medical students. In addition, this year class members made substantial gifts to name a room in the Medical Education Center, as a way of honoring their past and celebrating the future of medical education at Penn. They join the Class of...

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Heart Attack Survivor and Nurse Who Helped Bring Her Back to Life Create Compelling Case for Hypothermia Training

2011-06-07T07:04:00.006-07:00

While driving on I-195 Memorial Day weekend one year ago, Virginia Wallace – customer service representative and mother of two – went into cardiac arrest, lost control of her car, and crashed into a guardrail. Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the U.S. – Ms. Wallace had less than a 10% chance of survival and a still lower chance of avoiding brain injury. She beat the odds, in...

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