The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania has opened its $38 million Henry A. Jordan Medical Education
Center.
The three-story, 55,000-square-foot education center will
allow students, from their first day, to share space with faculty researchers
and clinicians as they follow an integrated and multidisciplinary curriculum
that emphasizes small-group instruction and self-directed learning.
The features of the center include high-tech recording
and simulcast capabilities designed to support global conferences,
telemedicine, and the creation of online courses and lectures that will be made
available to people across the globe. The technologies are intended to
facilitate constant collaboration between Penn Medicine laboratories and other
Penn schools, centers and institutes.
The center at 3400 Civic Center Blvd. in West
Philadelphia was built on top of the back the Perelman Center for Advanced
Medicine.
Dr. J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Perelman School of
Medicine and executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health
System, said the center is "ideally suited to play a prominent role in
advancing innovation in every aspect of medicine."
The center was financed through a combination of
donations from more than 250 gifts from alumni and others, and matching funds
from the Penn health system. It is named in recognition of the late Henry A.
Jordan, who was a Perelman School of Medicine faculty member and alumnus, and
in honor of the Jordan family's support of the center.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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