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        Welcome to the Penn State Hershey Center for Primary Care

        The Penn State Center for Primary Care is a multidisciplinary group of faculty members and staff committed to creating collaborative solutions to academic and community-based education, health professions development and local health needs of the Commonwealth and nation by mobilizing academic resources of the institution to:

         

        • Enhance the integrity of primary care as an academic discipline. Creation of an environment that integrates primary care faculty members into the academic culture of the organization.
        • Support of a comprehensive curriculum that incorporates community-based experiences.
        • Improve the recruitment, distribution, and retention of needed health care providers.
        • Promote research that enhances community health.
        • Support cooperative efforts between agriculture and medical sciences to address special health issues of rural populations.
        • Provide an environment that cultivates interest and excellence in primary care and community-based medicine.

        In the presence of faculty, friends and peers, current graduate students were invited to be the first to recite the Graduate Student Oath. Then incoming students received their first white laboratory coat, a symbol of their entrance into the biomedical research profession.   Learn More >>

        "Without a doubt, I would not be where I am today without the training and guidance I received at Penn State  College of Medicine. The curriculum, laboratory training, and scientific interactions I experienced during my graduate training prepared me well for a career in academic research."

         

        Ed Harhaj, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Medicine
        Ph.D. in 1999, Microbiology & Immunology

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        Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

        John Ellis, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Director of the Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory within the Department of Psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the University of Bonn, in Bonn, Germany, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board.

        He is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who are traveling abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.