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Steven J. Scheinman, M.D., Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine president and dean, chairs international panel on patient safety
Steven J. Scheinman, M.D., president and dean of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and chief academic officer at Geisinger, was invited by The Patient Safety Movement Foundation to chair its "Patient Safety Curriculum in Schools" panel and to m...
Mar 13, 2018, 9:53am EDT
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine faculty member publishes paper in American Journal of Bioethics
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine faculty member, Brian J. Piper, Ph.D., of Waverly, assistant professor of neuroscience, is the author of a paper accepted for publication in the American Journal of Bioethics--Empirical Bioethics. The article i...
Feb 27, 2018, 2:38pm EST
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine professor, student publish research in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Jun Ling, PhD, of Clarks Summit, an associate professor of molecular biology at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, is the corresponding author, and second-year medical student Adit Singhal is lead author of research published Feb. 7 in the Jour...
Feb 14, 2018, 11:32am EST
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine faculty publish paper in American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine faculty members, Brian J. Piper, Ph.D., M.S., assistant professor of neuroscience, of Waverly, and Olapeju M. Simoyan, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of family medicine and epidemiology, of Throop, are autho...
Jan 16, 2018, 10:45am EST
Geisinger Commonwealth faculty invited to help lead upcoming Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in Health Professions
Two members of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's leadership team, alumni of the Harvard Macy Institute's Program for Educators in Health Professions, have been invited to return to Harvard as faculty for the next offering of the educational p...
Dec 6, 2017, 3:16pm EST
Molecular biology professor called to serve her rural community with lessons inspired by medical school curriculum
Cathy Wilcox, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, has begun a new adventure born of a call to service. In the process, the service Dr. Wilcox envisions will compliment and extend the educational...
Dec 6, 2017, 10:57am EST
Koerwer selected as fellow of Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership
V. Scott Koerwer, vice president for strategy and vice dean of graduate studies, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, joined 32 other senior leaders from more than two dozen universities who were selected as fellows in the fifth cohort of the Aca...
Nov 30, 2017, 1:33pm EST
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine professor published in prestigious journal
Raj Kumar, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry and the director of research at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Geisinger Commonwealth), is the lead author of a research article published on Nov. 13 in the online journal, Scientific Reports. S...
Nov 21, 2017, 1:23pm EST
Steven J. Scheinman, M.D., president and dean of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine receives Laureate Award from Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians
Steven J. Scheinman, M.D., president and dean of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and chief academic officer at Geisinger, has been selected by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians (PA-ACP) as a 2017 Laureate Award wi...
Nov 7, 2017, 9:09am EST
Geisinger Commonwealth scientist's research 'key' to Nobel Prize in Medicine
SCRANTON -- A professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Geisinger Commonwealth) contributed to research that led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded Oct. 2 to three U.S. researchers. The prize was awarded to Jeffrey Hall at the Univers...
Oct 12, 2017, 1:48pm EDT
