Mar 7, 2018
Surgeons in the Penn State Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center now cut out the middle step in some three-stage, single-step, stoma-free ileal pouch anal anastomosis procedures.
Feb 16, 2018
Two members of the Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery team performed cleft lip and palate surgery during service mission trips to Peru with the Foundation for Advancement in Cleft Education and Services (FACES).
Christopher Pool, MD, a resident in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, is creating a mouse model for human thyroid cancer using a DNA editing technique known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat).
Feb 13, 2018
The foot and ankle team of the Penn State Bone and Joint Institute is using a new lateral approach to total ankle replacement. Since initiating this technique at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 2015, the number of procedures using it has more than tripled.
Researchers at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in conjunction with bioengineers at Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, are pioneering the use of 3-D bioprinting technology to repair cartilage damage to the knee and treat osteoarthritis.
Penn State Bone and Joint Institute researchers have found a new solution to the issue of posterior instability seen with severe glenoid retroversion in total shoulder arthroplasty.
Feb 6, 2018
The Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery team at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center offers a new, minimally invasive approach to treat sialolithiasis and other obstructive salivary gland diseases.
Feb 2, 2018
The majority of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) end up being normal polymorphisms that are not linked to increased cancer risk. Rarely, a VUS is later reclassified as a pathogenic variant that would then inform medical management recommendations. In these cases, patients with the reclassified VUS are contacted for follow-up consultation, sometimes years after the gene test was performed.
Jul 26, 2017
In 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommended one-time screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) for all adults born from 1945 to 1965 – the “baby boomers.” Pennsylvania and New York state legislatures have passed laws making it mandatory for health care providers to offer HCV screening or diagnostic testing for all baby boomer patients.
I am excited to join Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and be part of a team of highly skilled colleagues who are greatly regarded for excellent clinical care and research.
