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P2R: Prehab to Rehab
Project Description A pancreaticoduodenectomy, also known as a Whipple procedure, is a major surgical operation for pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis. Despite its complexity, the procedure is a mature…
E-Consults: Reducing Wait Times for Patients with Blood Disorders
Project Description Wait times to see a physician, particularly a specialist, have steadily increased over the last several years. Recent data found the average wait time for an…
Decision Tree to Improve Access for People with Gynecologic Cancer
Project Description Gynecologic cancers—a category including cervical, uterine, and all other forms of cancer that originate in the female reproductive system—affect roughly 100,000 women each year. Unfortunately, for many…
Thibang Diphatlha: Testing Adaptive Strategies to Close the Gap From Cervical Cancer Diagnosis to Treatment in Botswana
Project Description Women in the sub-Saharan African nation of Botswana are 10 times more likely than their American counterparts to die of cervical cancer. This is due in large…
Self-Management of Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Project Description Care for childhood cancer is improving. Because of treatment advances, more than 80 percent of children with cancer become long-term survivors, resulting in 375,000 survivors aged 20-39…
Telemedicine and Cancer Rehabilitation: Learning from the Pandemic
Project Description Telemedicine experienced major growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, filling a suddenly urgent need for safe, remote alternatives to the doctor’s office. Telemedicine technologies, which primarily involve phone…
Caitlin M. O’Neill
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Associate Program Director, Nursing and Healthcare Leadership MSN Program Caitlin O’Neill, DNP, RN, OCN, NEA-BC is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn…
Roger Kim
Roger Kim, MD, MSCE, is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Interventional Pulmonology…
Lucy Wang
Lucy Wang is an Innovation Fellow at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and a resident at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She received a Bachelor…
Melina Marmarelis
Medical Director of Penn Medicine Mesothelioma and Pleural Program, University of Pennsylvania Co-Director, Molecular Tumor Board at the University of Pennsylvania Melina Marmarelis, MD, MSCE, is an Innovation Faculty member…