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  • News October 27, 2014

    Transforming Temple Health’s Clinical Research Infrastructure

    Say "medical research" to most people and they’ll probably think of a health story they saw on TV or in the newspaper, urging a new caution or touting a new cure. But what the headlines rarely convey is the tremendous amount of coordinated collaboration, logistical legwork, and methodological moxie that are required to produce a successful clinical trial or research project.

  • News October 24, 2014

    A Look Back in Time: TUSM Opens Cornerstone Box from Old Medical School Built in 1930

    More than a dozen eager onlookers – including news reporters and photographers – watched and waited as Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS, Dean of Temple University School of Medicine and President & CEO of Temple University Health System, carefully opened the two-foot long oxidized copper box.

    The box had just been lifted from behind the large Date Stone next to the front doors of the soon-to-be-demolished Old Medical School Building – its resting place since October 18, 1930, when the building was officially dedicated.

  • News October 20, 2014

    Temple Study Suggests a Novel Approach for Treating Non-Cardiac Chest Pain

    Chest pain doesn't necessarily come from the heart. An estimated 200,000 Americans each year experience non-cardiac chest pain, which in addition to pain can involve painful swallowing, discomfort and anxiety. Non-cardiac chest pain can be frightening for patients and result in visits to the emergency room because the painful symptoms, while often originating in the esophagus, can mimic a heart attack. Current treatment — which includes pain modulators such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) — has a partial 40 to 50 percent response rate in alleviating symptoms.

  • News October 16, 2014

    Leading Lung Health Organizations Release First-Ever Evidence-Based Patient Care Guidelines in Prevention of Acute Exacerbations of COPD

    The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) announced today the release of Prevention of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: American College of Chest Physicians and Canadian Thoracic Society Guideline in the journal CHEST.

  • News October 08, 2014

    Temple's Tasuku Akiyama, PhD, Earns Research Award from International Association for the Study of Pain

    Tasuku Akiyama, PhD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Anatomy & Cell Biology at Temple University School of Medicine, and a researcher at the Temple Itch Center, has been awarded the 2014 Ronald Dubner Research Prize by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Dr. Akiyama received the prestigious award October 7 at the IASP 15th World Congress on Pain in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  • News October 07, 2014

    Temple's John Krouse, MD, PhD, Named Editor-in-Chief of Leading Medical Journal

    John Krouse, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Temple University School of Medicine, was recently named Editor-in-Chief of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery – the official peer-reviewed publication of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Krouse has served as an Associate Editor of the journal for nine years.

  • News October 01, 2014

    Dr. Won Han Appointed Executive Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Temple

    Won Han, MD, has been appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and Executive Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, effective October 1, 2014. As Executive Vice Chair, Dr. Han will provide administrative oversight to ensure the effective operation of clinical services in the Department of Medicine.

  • News September 25, 2014

    Temple Director of Aortic and Endovascular Surgery to Chair Meeting of International Society of Endovascular Specialists

    Grayson H. Wheatley, III, MD, FACS, Director of Aortic and Endovascular Surgery at Temple University Hospital, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine (left), is serving as Conference Chairman for the International Society of Endovascular Specialists' Mid-Atlantic Aortic Symposium on Saturday, September 27, in Philadelphia. The Symposium is being held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

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