8th Floor Blockley Hall – 423 Guardian Drive – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia PA 19104
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The University of Pennsylvania was formally the location of one of the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics.

VISION
To serve as a trusted national resource for people seeking to improve health through the best use of medical therapies.

MISSION
To conduct research and provide education that will advance the optimal use of drugs, medical devices, and biological products.

INTRODUCTION
Each of the CERTs centers has a specific theme. The PennCERT theme was infectious diseases and anti-infective therapy.

The goal of the Penn CERT was to decrease inappropriate use of antibiotics, thereby reducing antibiotic drug resistance. The major foci were to conduct evidence-based research to improve decisions about the use and effects of anti-infective drugs, to implement and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing inappropriate use of anti-infectives, to develop methods and population resources to support such aims, and to develop educational and dissemination programs to promulgate the results.

PennCERT has the following sub-themes:
 1) pharmacoepidemiology, 2) patient safety, and 3) health information technology (HIT).

Selected projects:

  • A health information technology (HIT) intervention to improve perioperative prophylactic antibiotic use
  • Impact of clinical microbiology laboratory text message alerts on the institution of appropriate antimicrobial therapy
  • Effect of public reporting on hospital-acquired infections
  • Dissemination of pediatric anti-microbial stewardship


Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (former)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
8th Floor, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
phone: 215.898-5300
fax: 215.573-5315