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THINKER Project Receive AST Innovation Award

Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, and the THINKER project team have received the American Society of Transplantation's Innovation Award for 2020. Read more about the award and about the THINKER project.

NASEM Report Frames Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, and colleagues on The National Academy of Medicine’s committee on Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain have published their report, filled with practical points for researchers. Read or download the free report.

PennSIVE Now a Center of Excellence

The Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor (PennSIVE), led by Russell (Taki) Shinohara, PhD, has begun a new phase, with status as a CCEB Center of Excellence and a brand new website. Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine attended a November 18 Town Hall, to learn more details. Read more.

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In the News

New Framework for Clinical Trials During Disease Outbreaks

April 2020

The path to vaccines and treatments during epidemics such as COVID-19: Hoping to avoid mistakes made during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Susan Ellenberg, PhD, and coauthors of the WHO’s R&D Blueprint group call for a new clinical trials “core protocol.”

Read the sounding board piece in New England Journal of Medicine

What a Ventilator Shortage Means During COVID-19 — and How We Can Help

March 2020

We believe that as many as one million Americans who fall victiem to COVID-19 will need the support of ventilators — five times the number we have, writes critical care physician Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM. However, there are at least three steps we can take to give everyone the best chance.

Read the opinion piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Drugs That Might Treat COVID-19: No, We Can’t Just Let People Try Them

March 2020

President Trump has argued for widespread use of some promising drugs for COVID-19: “What have you got to lose?” Patients treated with drugs that haven’t been adequately studied have plenty to lose, writes Susan Ellenberg, PhD, in Slate.

Read the opinion piece in Slate
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How can we answer and anticipate the pressing health issues we face together as a society? At the CCEB we rise to that challenge through research and training in epidemiology and in biostatistics. We solve problems facing patients and populations. MORE

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