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For the first time since 2019, fourth-year medical students at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine gathered in person and learned together where the next phase of their medical training will take them.

Experts predict that a technology called POCUS will transform the practice of medicine. And, in a first for medical education in the eastern United States, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine has supplied the technology to every medical student in its classes of 2024 and 2025 within the same academic year.

Thanks to a generous, forward-thinking North Philadelphian named Florence P. Bernheimer (1890-1985), Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz now holds Temple University’s Florence P. Bernheimer Distinguished Service Professorship Chair – and has funding earmarked for research in cardiology at Temple.

Taking a major step forward in HIV research, Temple researchers have successfully edited SIV – a virus closely related to HIV, the cause of AIDS – from the genomes of non-human primates. This breakthrough brings the research team closer than ever to developing a cure for human HIV infection.

The testing program was a university-wide collaboration involving dozens of members of Temple’s community, from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine to Student and Employee Health Services and Information Technology Services.