Vaccinating “Dynamic Duo”, Tarik Khan and Patricia Khan
Doctoral candidate, Tarik Khan, and his mother, Patricia Khan, a registered nurse, featured on NBC10 for their work as part of the medical reserve corps administering COVID-19 vaccines across Philadelphia. James Garrow, of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health stated, “We cannot thank them enough.”
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Combating Health Misinformation
On July 15, 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an urgent plea for all Americans to take part in slowing a serious threat to public health. He wasn’t talking about the COVID-19 pandemic but rather the harmful effects on personal and public health caused by the infodemic – the creation and spread of an excessive amount of unreliable and false health information.
Nurses Innovating in Practice
As the covid pandemic challenged health care systems around the world, Penn Medicine nurses at the school of nursing’s academic practice partner facilities drew on their creativity and limitless capacity for evidence-driven risk to quickly test and implement new solutions. Constrained resources, an unknown virus, evolving standards—that didn’t stop these professionals (many of them Penn alumni). Here, five stories of how they innovated in patient care and in their practice and inspired us all.
And the Winner is
A wearable device tracking postpartum hemorrhage was awarded $10,000 in funding as the winner of the 2021 Innovation Accelerator.
2021 President’s Innovation Prize for Penn Nursing Senior
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, who is graduating in a few weeks, is the first nursing student to win this award. The President’s Innovation Prize was created by University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to strengthen the University’s commitment to innovation under the Penn Compact 2020.
Laporte Challenge Fund Inspires Fourteen New Endowed Fellowships
With over 70 percent of our students reliant upon financial aid to afford a Penn Nursing education, fellowships are particularly critical, especially for students in our accelerated second degree and Masters programs who are often no longer eligible for certain types of aid. It was this need that inspired Andie Laporte, alumna and Chair of Penn Nursing’s Board of Advisors, to offer matching funds to anyone who would like to endow fellowships at the School. Thanks to Andie’s brilliant idea and generosity, donors established fourteen new fellowships for students in need, all designated for accelerated second degree and Masters students.