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On August 5, 2022, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine welcomed the Class of 2026 to the medical profession at its annual White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, each member of the Katz School of Medicine Class of 2026 will receive a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) device and Temple-branded stethoscope at the Ceremony. The Class of 2026 is the third class to receive both a POCUS device and a stethoscope, joining the classes of 2024 and 2025. Temple remains the only medical school in Philadelphia and on the East Coast providing both diagnostic tools to each new medical student.

The Class of 2022 is the fifth and largest class of Physician Assistant Program students at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine who received their Master of Medical Science degrees. They had embarked on their educational journey amid a world in crisis a little over two years ago – and have emerged stronger from the experience.

In selecting the Class of 2026, the Lewis Katz School of the Medicine for the first time included the perspectives of North Philadelphia community members, who interviewed each of the prospective medical students and had a say in the Admissions Committee’s decisions.

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.