While the incidence of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has decreased, that of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) continues to rise, accounting for ~50% of heart failure hospitalizations. Patients with HFpEF suffer mentally and physically, similar to their HFrEF counterparts, and are markedly limited in terms of their functional capacity and quality of life. Yet in contrast to HFrEF, there are few effective pharmacologic treatments for HFpEF, despite numer...

This will be a half day medical education course designed to empower clinician educators with new skills focusing on coaching and using innovative assessment mechanisms that are applicable to any specialty. It will also be a forum to build the clinician educator community, troubleshoot educational challenges, and collaborate on new projects.This activity is designed for Physicians only.

Grand rounds conference provides faculty, residents, advanced practice providers, and nurses a forum to discuss new clinical and scientific information related to benign and malignant breast disease to facilitate adherence to evidence-based clinical practice with a didactic lecture through Q&A.

The re-emergence of fentanyl has created a heightened need for clinicians to employ medications designed to treat opioid use disorder (MOUD) and implement harm reduction strategies. 

Continuous series of in-person educational activities for all subspecialities within Orthopaedic Surgery. This will include lectures and live demonstrations from visiting professors and Penn faculty and residents.

This is a regular scheduled series meeting that is scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. The series content is for our Provider Builder program. Provider Builders are clinicians who are engaged with PennChart and Epic processes and understand the enterprise goal of organizational improvement. Clinical content for the meeting involves all clinical settings in the health system. Topics are structured to address gaps in patient care, education needs to manage those gaps, and review outcome...

The Clinical Research Operations Supplemental Series (CROSS) provides educational opportunities for research staff of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) Clinical Research Unit (CRU) on topics related to the daily operations of the ACC CRU and collaborating departments, e.g., Radiation Oncology, Pathology, Fertility Preservation Care Program. Past educational opportunities have included: (1) Hallmarks of Cancer, (2) Drug-Drug Interactions: The Cytochrome 450 Metabolic Pathway, and (3) Immune Toxic...

To help provide an environment where patient care is the main priority and residents, fellows, and other members of the interprofessional healthcare team are able to provide quality patient care. Quality patient care will be assured through review of peer-reviewed literature, multidisciplinary cooperation, and following of established clinical practice guidelines.

These sessions will bring content experts from many aspects of the University including Penn Medicine and CHOP to address relevant and contemporary issues in delivering care to medically underserved patient populations.

This activity is designed to provide evidence-based recommendations for the care of our Emergency Department patient population who are facing substance abuse issues.