Penn Medicine Alumni

06/26/2025

05/01/2025

As part of Medical Alumni Weekend, join Brian Litt, MD, and fellow Penn Medicine experts for a fascinating panel on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)—devices that connect the brain to external technology. From epilepsy monitoring to brain injury therapy, BCIs are revolutionizing neuroscience and patient care.

📅 Friday, May 17, 2025
🕒 3:00 – 4:15 PM
📍 Jordan Medical Education Center

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04/30/2025

Heading to Medical Alumni Weekend? Don’t miss the Meet and Eat Networking Breakfast. It's a great chance to swap stories, share advice, and expand the Penn Med family tree with current PSOM students.

📅/ Saturday, May 17, 2025
🕘 9:00 – 11:00 AM
📍 Jordan Medical Education Center

We'll have designated tables for different specialties and interests to help spark meaningful conversations. Have a great topic in mind? Be sure to suggest it when you register! Register here:

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04/07/2025

Congratulations to the 150 Perelman School of Medicine students who matched into residency on March 21st!

Match Day marks the start of an incredible new chapter, and we’re so proud of everything our students have accomplished to get to this point.

On Friday, March 21, the Penn community celebrated Match Day. Watch to see the anticipation and excitement as the graduating class of 2025 learns where they ...

03/26/2025

The Perelman School of Medicine provides a fifth-year research opportunity known as the "year-out" program, allowing students to dedicate a sabbatical to scholarly research. Read more to learn about MD/master’s student Sally Nijim’s experience with both a scholarly year and a combined-degree program:

The Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) provides all students with a robust education. For those who want to take an extra step to round out their skills, the school offers the option of a fifth, research-focused year, as well as five-year combined-degree tracks. Students also can take a summer to de...

03/26/2025

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Alumni Award recipients who will be honored during Medical Alumni Weekend on Friday, May 16, 2025. Congratulations to these esteemed alumni!

The coveted Lifetime Achievement Award is reserved for the alumnus or alumna whose career has exemplified superior commitment, loyalty, and dedication to the Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Medicine development and alumni relations program.  Eminent recipients are carefully selected by the...

03/25/2025

Join Penn Nursing Alumni for a special author event featuring Dean Antonia Villarruel in conversation with Muffy Walker, Gnu’83, as she discusses her debut novel, Memory Weaver. The novel explores the science of dementia and the biobehavioral effects of PTSD – but also the human elements of these experiences – all through the lens of Muffy’s nursing background.

Join Penn Nursing Alumni for a special author event featuring Dean Antonia Villarruel in conversation with Muffy Walker, GNu’83, as she discusses...

03/24/2025

Celebrate Match Day with the Perelman School of Medicine’s class of 2025! Surrounded by family, friends, peers, faculty, and staff, watch as Penn’s medical students find out their residency program futures during the annual ceremony.

Celebrate Match Day with the Perelman School of Medicine’s class of 2025! Surrounded by family, friends, peers, faculty, and staff, watch as Penn’s medical s...

03/07/2025

Thank you to all who could join us at this year's Elizabeth Kirk Rose, M'26, INT'30 Women in Medicine Celebration! This year's awardees, Susan Rheingold, M'92, GM'03, Ruth Shaber, M'86, and Marketa Wills, M'99, WG'06, shared their career experiences, mentorship and the importance of advocating for yourself.

02/20/2025

This Black History Month, we honor Dr. Arlene Bennett, who became PSOM’s first Black female graduate in 1964 and has spent her career serving underserved communities. Now 91, she continues to see patients as a psychiatrist, fulfilling the dream she had as a child. “I really felt that I could make a difference,” she said.

We also recognize Dr. Nathan Mossell, PSOM’s first Black graduate, and Dr. Helen O. Dickens, its first Black female professor and a leader in women’s health. Their legacies continue to shape the future of medicine.

Taking care of others is what Bennett has done since 1964 when she graduated from the Perelman School of Medicine. She didn't realize at the time that she was making history.