Penn Medical Communication Research Institute oversees research to track the spread of medical information, understand its context & improve health literacy.
Joined July 2022
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
14 Oct 2025
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Added sugars represent a huge risk to rising chronic disease among children. #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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"Huge financial incentives to turn cancer into a chronic disease"
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
11 Oct 2021
Great presentation by @meganodris at #ITMATsymposium @PennMedicine Great to see a Bantry representative!
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Good analogy for mRNA LNP delivery into solid tumors: “We have the death star, we have ships coming to blow up the death star, but there is interference.” #mRNAtherapeutics #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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Cancer cells are addicted to glucose, and it is this affinity that is often used to diagnose cancers #cancer #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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The best outcome of human genetics is to try to identify a protective variant. #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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People who had restricted sugar early in life swap unhealthy sugars for healthy sugars even 50-60 years later #obesity #addedsugar #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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It’s not just about health! Early-life sugar restrictions linked to better economic outcomes #obesity #addedsugar #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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There are significant benefits of reducing added sugar early in life for those with high genetic obesity risk #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025 #obesity #addedsugar
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More than 60% of people exceed their limits of added sugars #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
27 Feb 2024
Key: Improving Public Understanding of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) annenbergpublicpolicycenter.… by @AnnenbergPenn @PennMCRI
"...the percentage of U.S. adults who incorrectly said that VAERS does present vaccine-caused deaths increased significantly..."
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
19 Feb 2024
In a recent piece for @JAMA_current, @annecappolamd (@PennEndocrine) & @KarthikaCohen (@PennMCRI) discuss evidence-based strategies for advancing effective medical communication tinyurl.com/3my22xsa
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
17 Jan 2024
Join @PennMCRI on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 9am - 2pm for "V.I.D.E.O. for Health Communication: Video to Improve Discovery, Effectiveness, and Outcomes," a half-day symposium on videography and video tools to improve health and medical communication med.upenn.edu/pmcri/video-sy…
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Penn Medical Communication Research Institute retweeted
16 Dec 2023
New to our “most viewed this week in JAMA list”
“Strategies to Improve Medical Communication” Cappola & Cohen @KarthikaCohen @PennMCRI
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Read PMCRI's first published paper on Medical Communication Strategies: buff.ly/3tf5izd #medcomm #healthcomm #medicine #communication
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Rather than simply anticipating how companies will use large language models, medical providers and researchers have the opportunity to define ethical and appropriate use of LLMs. - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine
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Large language models propagate race-based medicine - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine #artificialintelligence
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#ChatGPT faired better and was more empathetic in responding to patient questions than physicians, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine - - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #artificialintelligence
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