PISC Senior Scholar Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN, is featured in a recent study that evaluates the relationship between social isolation and anxiety in people with cognitive impairment. The study includes 1,343 participants living in the United States. Anxiety is...
A recent study featuring PISC Senior Scholar Allison E. Curry explores the impact of non-driving related license suspensions on quality of life. Fourteen adults with non-driving related license suspensions were evaluated. Participants engaged in semi-structured phone...
There is a lack of medical consensus as to what constitutes recovery from a pediatric concussion. A recent study featuring PISC Senior Scholar Daniel Corwin, MD, Executive Committee Member Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Senior Scholar Kristy Arbogast, PhD,...
Co-authored by PISC Senior Scholar Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, and Executive Committee member Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MA, this commentary article discusses the impact of stigma on healthcare access for people who use drugs. As the article notes, the fear and...
The PHIGHT Network, from the WSW Collaborative and including the Penn Injury Science Center, partnered with the YMCAs in Philadelphia in hosting the “Exercise Your Voice” event to give youth the stage in talking about community violence. Living in a city...
Penn Injury Science Center and city organizations have joined forces in the fight to reduce gun violence. As lives keep mounting daily, and the names of victims flash across TV screens, much more than political response is required. While nothing can replace a...
As gun violence continues to rise throughout Philadelphia, doctors are saying enough. Some in the Philadelphia medical community came together with city and state leaders to not only discuss the violence but share plans on how to stop it. The Penn Injury Science...
The Penn Injury Science Center joined the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, the Beloved Care Project, and the District Attorney’s Office to form the West/Southwest Collaborative Response to Gun Violence. The partnership is the only one in the city that...
This is a Core Research Project of the Penn Injury Science Center’s Injury Control Research Center (R49) funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The project aims to improve the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) by developing, refining,...
This study seeks to reduce health disparities affecting Black men by examining the relative contribution of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and neighborhood factors to pre-injury health, the occurrence of injury, and post-injury outcomes, and subsequently...