Podcasts about pennsylvania's perelman school

Dr. Susan Weiss works in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the co-director of Penn's newly-founded Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens. Penn's lab, which is considered a Biosafety Level 3 lab, obtained actual samples of the coronavirus that is sweeping across the world. Dr. Weiss is working from her home in Montgomery County to protect herself from getting infected; she is part of the known high-risk population. From her kitchen, she helps lead her special Penn research team to learn more about what this coronavirus is, what it can do and how it can be destroyed. Dr. Weiss may very well be one of the people who will lead us out of this pandemic. She has been conducting research on the group of viruses known as coronaviruses for 40 years. Her research has taken her to Wuhan, the city in China where the pandemic began. Dr. Weiss explains what she has learned so far during her career and what she hopes to know very soon. Recorded on March 27, 2020 in Merion Station, PA. In this podcast: Dr. Weiss talks about what it has been like working from home (1:45), how her lab obtained coronavirus samples and what a BSL-3 lab is all about (2:14), how she is a scientist and not a clinician and what that means (3:45), explains her background in coronavirus research (5:00), why the field was wide open when she selected it in the beginning of her career (6:45), why she has been studying the coronavirus in mice (7:45), why there could be many more coronaviruses that we don't know about (8:55), she explains why viruses need a host and why they are not considered living organisms (10:30), why the SARS outbreak in 2002, now known as "SARS 1," featured a virus that was far more deadly than this one (11:30), how this latest coronavirus, which is referred to as "SARS 2," kind of got lucky (13:08), her visit to Wuhan, China (13:45), the mystery of why SARS 1 seemed to suddenly disappear (14:15), how a virus jumps from animals to humans and why bats carry coronaviruses (15:40), whether the pangolin may have been the animal that allowed SARS 2 to jump to humans (18:10), how she took part in a study that was published this year that disproved the conspiracy theory that SARS 2 was created in a lab (19:50), what the coronavirus does to humans who get infected (21:20), what happens when the body experiences a "cytokine storm," when the immune system goes haywire (22:30), upper respiratory infections versus lower ones (22:55), what she hopes to learn from the coronavirus during this crucial stage of her research (24:10), the coincidence that the recent virus outbreaks have generally been about 10 years apart (27:20), the pressure of quickening the pace of her research (27:45), what she thinks about the world's response to the pandemic (28:40), how the pandemic will change our lives (29:30), the possibility of the coronavirus jumping seasons and "herd immunity" (30:05).

How can we raise children who are resilient and able to bounce back from the ups and downs of life and move forward with optimism and confidence? We talk with Dr. Ken Ginsburg, the Co-Founder and Director of Programs at the Center for Parent and Teen Communications, a Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and author or "Building Resilience in Children and Teens" and "Raising Kids to Thrive".Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

Host Jeff Voigt leads an expert panel discussion on the current dynamics surrounding end of life care in the US - is there such a thing as a good death? on The Business of Health Care. Expert Panelists include: Dr. Holly Prigerson, Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care; Dr. Connie Ulrich, Lillian S. Brunner Chair, Professor of Nursing, and Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine; and Dr. Philip Pizzo, David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Founding Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. Dr. Pizzo co-chaired the National Academy of Medicine 2014 report on Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In August 2016, Luke Rosen’s two-year old daughter, Susannah, was diagnosed with a rare, neurodegenerative disease called KIF1A Associated Neurological Disorder. At the time, she was one of only about 15 people known to have the condition. Ahead of the upcoming RARE Patient Advocacy Symposium hosted Saturday, May 19 by Global Genes, in partnership with the Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, we spoke to Rosen about his journey as a patient advocate, how he has sought to build an organization to advance research into his daughter’s condition, and his work now as a patient advocate within a biotech company.