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Welcome to Penn State Hershey Palliative Care

Palliative Care provides comfort for the seriously ill through the relief of pain, symptoms, and stress. The focus of Palliative Care is neither to hasten nor postpone death. It provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms and integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of care. Furthermore, it offers a support system to help relatives and friends cope during the patient's illness and bereavement.

Our Mission is to provide unconditional care to improve the quality of life for patients and their families with incurable diseases.  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.