Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Elinore Kaufman and Rodney Babb, of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, participated in the Story Slam focusing on firearm injury and prevention as a public health issue, co-hosted by Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and...
Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson was featured in Penn Today and named a difference maker in the Penn Medicine News for her role as the bridge between the street outreach Penn Community Violence Prevention program and the hospital-based Penn Trauma Violence Recovery...
Varying definitions of recovery for concussion

Varying definitions of recovery for concussion

A recent paper led by Dan Corwin, with Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and other CHOP colleagues, suggests there is wide variability in the proportion of youth considered to be “recovered” following concussion, depending on the definition of...
Youth firearm injury and recovery

Youth firearm injury and recovery

Elinore Kaufman, Therese Richmond, and Katie Hoskins published a review for pediatric critical care clinicians on youth firearm injury, now the leading cause of death for youth in the United States. The article includes approaches for prevention and the improvement of...
Preventing falls with tech

Preventing falls with tech

Sense4Safety, the technology used in one of the Center’s core research projects, received a flurry of media attention following a presentation by George Demiris at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Demiris leads the...