Brian Hickey
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June 11, 2020
JeffersonSCREEN Project Aims to Reduce Social Isolation for Patients
An interdisciplinary team works to make ‘mask-less visual connections’ possible for infectious disease patients in the COVID-19 era and beyond.
June 11, 2020
A Great Societal Challenge Returns Accompanied by Lessons (and Questions) From the Past
An American studies instructor, who spent decades studying the ‘Spanish Flu’ outbreak, mulls how future peers will chronicle the COVID era.
April 29, 2020
Students in Jefferson’s Health Design Lab Helping Make Important PPE Fix
A small piece of the PAPR suit battery pack kept breaking, rendering the whole suit useless, so they used 3D printing to fill the gap.
April 20, 2020
How Creating a ‘New Army of First Preventers’ Could Help America Emerge From the Initial COVID-19 Wave
Dr. David Nash, founding dean emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health, discusses paths back from the age of social distancing.
April 15, 2020
Nationwide Study on Medical Students’ Empathy, at a Time When Empathy Is Needed Most
Dr. Mohammadreza Hojat discusses his research which examines ‘the backbone of patient care’ amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 14, 2020
Inside the Race to Provide Frontline Healthcare Workers With COVID-19 Testing Kits
At Jefferson, behind-the-scenes students and faculty come to the forefront with an in-house effort to generate important components for 10,000 much-needed testing kits for collecting specimens.
April 2, 2020
Students Step Up to Help Jefferson Community in COVID-19 Fight
From a safe social distance, volunteers have created 10,000 face shields, connected with patients and more.
April 1, 2020
JeffMask, JeffVent Missions Seek to Help Fill Potential PPE and Ventilator Gaps
University textiles and design experts jump into action to help protect peers on medical side.
March 23, 2020
Population Health Researcher Launches COVID-19 Survey
Jefferson’s Dr. Sharon Larson hopes to gather real-time data during the pandemic to ‘inform practice and policy.’
March 19, 2020
Mobile Testing for COVID-19 Now at All Major TJUH Sites
Jefferson patients with a physician-ordered test can walk or drive up for testing.
March 19, 2020
Explaining the Dire Need to ‘Flatten the Curve’
Dr. David Nash of the Jefferson College of Population Health delves deeper into the phrase that’s come to define COVID-19 prep.