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It is a momentous year for Jordan Juarez and Danielle McAuliffe, rising fourth-year MD candidates at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Both are scholars in the National Institutes of Health Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).

The NBC10 Investigators interviewed Maria Elena Vega Sanchez, MD, Associate Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery and Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, for a story about how sleep quality can differ by ZIP code. Dr. Vega Sanchez discussed how lack of access to health care or a sleep doctor can negatively affect sleep, how new technologies can diagnose sleep disorders at home, and how sleep can impact your overall health.

Essence picked up a Billy Penn article that highlighted a partnership between researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and community-based providers from Maternal Wellness Village, under the auspices of Oshun Family Center. The Katz School of Medicine and Maternal Wellness Village were approved for a five-year, $5.99 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to compare two approaches for reducing heart disease risk factors in Black birthing people. The overarching goal of the study is to eliminate disturbing disparities in heart disease, including heart attack and stroke, among Black women and birthing people during and after pregnancy. Sharon J. Herring, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Reproductive Sciences, and Director of the Program for Maternal Health Equity at the Katz School of Medicine, and Saleemah McNeil, MS, MFT, Program Director of Maternal Wellness Village, a collective of Philadelphia-based Black birth workers, are co-principal investigators on the study.