Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Karen Murphy visited Temple University Hospital (TUH) on June 23rd to present Certificates of Recognition to Temple and other area hospitals for the care, dedication, and compassion they provided to victims of the May 12th Amtrak derailment. Temple Health clinicians and administrators, together with colleagues from hospitals across the region, gathered in TUH's Erny Auditorium to receive the honors.
For the past 14 years, graduate students at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) have had the chance to show off their research accomplishments at the Dawn Marks Research Day. This year’s event, held on June 4 in Temple’s Medical Education and Research Building, attracted 200 attendees and featured 49 student poster exhibits and 11 oral presentations.
For two days in mid-June, Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) was the place to be for healthcare professionals looking to learn more about the repair of fractures and other traumatic orthopaedic injuries. The scene was the 7th Annual Philadelphia Orthopaedic Trauma Symposium, a 12-credit CME conference co-hosted by TUSM and Trauma Orthopaedists of the Delaware Valley.
Raj Kishore, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM), is harnessing the communications vesicles excreted by stem cells and using them to induce the damaged heart to repair itself.
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FACC, FASE, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, has taken the helm as president of the 16,000 member American Society of Echocardiography.
It’s long been known that scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in patients with chronic itch. Now, researchers in the Department of Dermatology and Temple Itch Center at Temple University School of Medicine may be closer to understanding why.
Research talent of the Department of Medicine’s young physicians was once again on display at the 2015 Annual Sol Sherry Fellows and Residents Research Symposium, held on June 10 in Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Medical Education and Research Building (MERB).
Two former faculty members and pioneers in the field of research dermatology have made a combined gift of $1 million to Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Department of Dermatology.