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Welcome to Our Newest Faculty Members!

Benjamin Scholl, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Amanda C. Riisen, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Ryosuke Takei, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Jennifer Sherker, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Winnie Sigal, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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PSOM Staff Spotlight

Erin Schubert
Administrative Director
PET Center, Department of Radiology
Erin Schubert: Full Profile
Norman Butler
Director, Core Facilities
Department of Radiology
Norman Butler: Full Profile
Brian Korn
IT Support Supervisor
Penn Medicine Academic Computing Services (PMACS)
Brian Korn: Full Profile
Elizabeth Moore, CRA
Director of Research Administration
Department of Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth Moore, CRA: Full Profile
Suzanne Rizio
Grants Manager
Department of Emergency Medicine
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Featured Publications

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New Mental Health Platform Provides Support for Healthcare Workers While mental health in the workplace is a longstanding and undertreated issue, it has been amplified as health professionals struggle with the extraordinary physical and emotional demands of COVID-19.
Gene Therapy Program at Penn Medicine Joins AAVCOVID Vaccine Project The internationally-renowned Gene Therapy Program at the University of Pennsylvania is joining the AAVCOVID vaccine program led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), members of Mass General Brigham for the joint research program.
Follow-up Treatments After Opioid Overdose Rare Among Insured Patients The majority of commercially insured patients who visited the emergency department (ED) for an opioid overdose didn’t receive the timely follow-up care known to help prevent a future overdose or death, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Taking Inventory of Which Drugs the World Is Using to Treat COVID-19 With doctors and researchers around the world searching for effective treatments for COVID-19, many drugs approved to treat other diseases are being used in hopes that they’ll be effective against the virus, a use that’s known as “off-label.”
New “Blueprint” of Exhausted T Cell Lifespan Could Help Build Better Immunotherapies Mapping out the lifespan of the immune cells that lose steam in the body’s fight against cancer is giving Penn Medicine researchers a better understanding of how future immunotherapies could reinvigorate them to help attack disease.

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