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🚨 Funded training alert!
Doctoral & early-career researchers: apply for the R25 Short Course for Injury Prevention at Penn Nursing.
📅 March 8–12, 2027 + virtual sessions
💡 Firearm injury research
🤝 Mentorship & networking
🔗 buff.ly/zLcfBTq
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
Thrilled to announce that Anireddy Reddy, MD, MSHP and Hillary Kapa, MPH have been awarded the PISC-CIRP Injury Research Pilot Award. ⭐ Read more about their projects: injury.research.chop.edu/abo…
Made possible with support from @CHOP_Research and @PennInjury
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Elinore Kaufman, Rachel Myers, and Ruth Abaya joined us to wrap up day 2 of the Short Course for Action-Oriented Research with a panel on the role of health systems in firearm injury prevention 💬
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Wheels down 🛬 knowledge up💡
@PennNursing and @PennInjury are proud to host twenty trainee and early career researchers from across the country this week at the Short Course for Action-Oriented Research on Firearm Injury Prevention.
Participants arrived ready to roll on day 1.
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Congratulations to Adi Khurana of Moorestown High School, winner of the #SAVIR2026 Outstanding Student Poster Presentation!
Adi worked with Dr. Sara Solomon of @penncvp on an analysis of youth gun violence that pointed towards hours of higher risk for various age groups.
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The sunshine has arrived in Providence, and the @PennInjury trainees are fueled up from a family style meal... Ready for technical workshops up next at #SAVIR2026!
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Say hi 👋 to Andrew at the @PennInjury table at #SAVIR2026 to learn about PISC and get some bike safety gear
ALT person sitting at table decorated with informational flyers and bike safety giveaways
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
The wait is over! 🎉 The 2026 SAVIR Annual Conference — Anchoring the Community of Injury Science — is gearing up to begin in Providence, Rhode Island.
Stay tuned for highlights all week! #SAVIR2026
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Co-Directors Kate McDonald and Zack Meisel dropped into Christen Rexing's class "Advocacy & Public Health: Legislative Advocacy to Advance Injury & Violence Prevention" recently to talk about @penninjury & injury prevention. Students will take a field trip to advocate for ICRCs!
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
.@UPennTrauma Violence Recovery Program received new Pennsylvania funding to help victims rebuild their lives interrupted by violence ft. Rodney Babb (PTVRP) & Elinore Kaufman (@PennSurgery) @PennInjury @PaCrimeComm tinyurl.com/yc58jpmz
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
Congratulations to Priyanka Joshi, MD, MSHP, the recipient of the inaugural CIRP-@PennInjury Pilot Grant Award for her project, “Variability in Suicide Prevention Practices in US Pediatric Emergency Departments Nationally." Learn more about the pilot grant program & Dr. Joshi's project: injury.research.chop.edu/abo…
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The lunchtime #InjuryBrownBag series welcomed Drs. Tracy Waasdorp & Brooke Paskewich (@CVPatCHOP) to connect with PhD students, postdocs, residents & fellows passionate about injury prevention.
✅Learn cutting-edge injury science
✅Connect with peers & mentors across Penn & CHOP
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🚨 Funded training alert!
Doctoral & early-career researchers: apply for the Short Course from @PennNursing, @PennInjury, & @MHSVanderbilt.
📅 May 26–30, 2026 + virtual sessions
💡 Firearm injury research
🤝 Mentorship & networking
🔗 penninjuryscience.org/scip-f…
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
🚨 Funded training alert!
Doctoral & early-career researchers: apply for the
**R25 Short Course for Injury Prevention** at Penn Nursing.
📅 May 26–30, 2026 + virtual sessions
💡 Firearm injury research
🤝 Mentorship & networking
🔗 buff.ly/4jMzp2D
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
Congratulations to CIRP Scientific Director Dr. Kristy Arbogast and CIRP Research Scientist Dr. Akiva Cohen, 2025 Awards of Excellence Recipients from the Perelman School of Medicine at @Penn! 🎉
med.upenn.edu/evpdeancommuni…
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Penn Injury Science Center retweeted
Congratulations to Elinore Kaufman (@PennSurgery), recipient of the Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research Award! Learn more about Dr. Kaufman & her work here➡️tinyurl.com/sr4jsp92 #PSOMAOE @PennInjury @UPennTrauma @PennLDI @UPenn_CCEB
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Congrats to Dr. Allison Curry who received @ADEDDriverRehab Research & Applied Engineering Award for her contributions to automotive safety including public resources & policy implementation for young adults with neurodevelopmental differences. 🎉@PennInjury @CHOP_Research
ALT Award for Research & Applied Engineering Dr. Allison Curry
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We loved hearing some of the best #injuryscience from #SAVIR2025 during today's Flash Science at the @SAVIR_org Fall Forum. Our first "satellite SAVIR" a.k.a. watch party was a success!
S/o Jeff Ebert @PennNudgeUnit for great work on improving safe driving w behavioral economics
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Thanks to all who came out for the docu screening series on opioid awareness, action, & overdose prevention, incl. filmmakers, panelists, and our co-hosts @PennGSE and @PennMedicine Center for Health Justice who held the space for discussion, broke down stigma, & made connections
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