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Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE, has two new and one pending appointment to national efforts. Dr. Lo Re is Co-Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Hepatitis C Guidance Panel, Scientific Co-Chair of the 2023 American Conference for the Treatment of HIV, and will soon become Chair of the FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
Juneteenth is a happy day with an ironic underpinning — it memorializes a positive step taken much later than it should have been. Read more about our thoughts on Juneteenth.
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September 2022
Penn Medicine researchers will help lead the development of an algorithm to flag patients at risk of rare disease thanks to a $4.7 million NIH grant. This 4-year U01 will involve 10 national health systems (with a total of 27 million patients) for developing federated learning and transfer learning algorithms using real-world data for early detection of rare diseases.
The efforts to develop this prediction method, called “PANDA: Predictive Analytics via Networked Distributed Algorithms for multi-system diseases,” will be led by principal investigators from the DBEI Drs. Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, and Peter A. Merkel, Chief of Rheumatology and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, as well as Jiang Bian, Chief Data Scientist of the University of Florida Health System and a Professor in the Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
September 2022
First study author, Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, and the investigators discovered that apremilast (brand name Otezla), which has helped psoriasis patients achieve clearer skin and ease the symptoms of their psoriatic arthritis, could also help people with psoriasis shed unhealthy body fat and therefore improve cardiovascular health, a well-known vulnerability for those with psoriasis.
Read the article in JAMA Dermatology.
September 2022
Joe Biden says the pandemic is over. Experts said the definition of a pandemic depends on how society reacts. But is it?
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