Welcome to Penn State Hershey General Surgery
Welcome to the Penn State Hershey Department of Surgery General Surgery Residency page. I am Peter W. Dillon, M.D., Chair of Surgery and Director of the training program for General Surgery at Penn State’s University Hospital, Penn State Hershey Medical Center. We are located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, approximately 9 miles east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital of the Commonwealth. Our institution also houses the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. The other graduate and undergraduate schools are in State College, Pennsylvania (University Park, Pennsylvania), approximately a two-hour drive northwest of Harrisburg. More...
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Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet
Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full.More...
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Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant
Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
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Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards
Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
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Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip
This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...