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Welcome to Penn State Hershey Family and Community Medicine

Welcome to the Web Site of the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Penn State College of Medicine. We are located in beautiful  Hershey, Pennsylvania. You may be aware of the other fine product made in our community, the Hershey Bar. The Milton S. Hershey trust, in fact, made the initial donation to Penn State University that made it possible for all the students.

Our department has a long and proud history in Family Medicine education. In fact, we were the first department of Family Medicine in an academic health center in the United States!  More...

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.