Faculty News & Information
We encourage all faculty to become educated consumers of the information we share about our University. Social media is an excellent way to keep abreast of all our University happenings. Other online channels worth visiting include your college website home page as well as Jefferson.edu. Both are updated regularly with important University news.
Our most recent addition to share our news, and tell the stories the public should know more about, is our website we call The Nexus. Nexus is a connection or series of connections linking two or more things, bringing ideas to life. It also describes our collaborative, real-world approach to learning at Jefferson. So it makes perfect sense that The Nexus website is home to the great stories about faculty and students that make Jefferson unique in higher ed. Visit the site often. Content is refreshed every week.
Faculty News
In a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examining how patterns of prenatal substance use impact attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses in children, researchers found that co-use of alcohol and tobacco, and use of cannabis alone, posed the greatest risk.
In a recent study, Jefferson researcher and first author Wookjin Choi, PhD, developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm that could re-analyze these PET/CT images and accurately predict patients with more inflammation in the heart – often a precursor of long-term damage.
Neuroscientist Manuel Covarrubias, MD, PhD and his research assistant Qiansheng Liang, MD led a study published in Nature Communications that focused on Kv3 channels, the subclass of voltage-gated potassium channels that selectively bind AUT5.