Oct 16, 2020
Penn State Health ALS Center, led by Dr. Zachary Simmons, conducts more than a dozen industry-sponsored clinical trials annually and is on the forefront of groundbreaking research exploring how telehealth improves quality of life for ALS patients.
As the highest-volume neuro-oncology program in central Pennsylvania, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center offers multiple treatments and groundbreaking clinical research for benign and malignant brain tumors.
Oct 7, 2020
Dr. John Gniady, assistant professor and medical director of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State Health, offers screenings and provides vocal health hygiene education for freshmen students at the Penn State Department of Musical Theatre.
Dr. Neerav Goyal, chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, performed a proof of concept in 2019 to evaluate the feasibility of using the ORBEYE 4K-3D exoscope during three consecutive upper airway stimulation surgeries.
Sep 8, 2020
A research team, led by gastroenterologist Dr. Matthew Coates, is performing a four-year National Institutes of Health grant-funded study that aims to identify a root cause of silent inflammatory bowel disease.
Diverticulitis research at Penn State Health is using RNA deep sequencing and other methods to look at genetic pathways, the gut microbiome and alterations in immune response to better understand diverticular disease and improve timing of surgical intervention.
Aug 24, 2020
A research team including urologist Dr. Necole Streeper with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is testing mobile and wearable technology’s ability to help adult patients achieve behavioral changes that can prevent the recurrence of kidney stones.
To help curb the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania, Drs. Jay Raman and Nicole Streeper worked with teams to create new pathways for urologic cancer and symptomatic nephrolithiasis patients.
Dec 5, 2019
The multidisciplinary head and neck surgery team at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center uses leading-edge techniques to treat skull base and pituitary tumors with the goal of preserving function and quality of life.
Dr. Darrin Bann, an otolaryngology resident at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine, identified a novel gene mutation that is the only familial thyroid cancer-associated mutation identified in a gene that is predominantly expressed in thyroid tissue.
