Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership will host the annual Helen I. Moorehead-Laurencin, M.D. Sex and Gender Research Forum on January 10, 2008. The forum will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bossone Research Center on Drexel University’s main campus located at 32nd and Market Streets. It is free and open to the public.

Drexel University College of Medicine’s Office of Communications and Marketing received several honors during the 39th annual Pepperpot and Achievement Awards reception. Each year the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Philadelphia Chapter bestows awards for outstanding achievements in the field of public relations and communications. Top among these accolades is the Pepperpot award, one of the most coveted acknowledgments in the field.

A team of internal medicine residents from Drexel University College of Medicine has taken home the state title of “Medical Jeopardy” champions. The Drexel University College of Medicine team won the Pennsylvania title in a competition held last weekend at Hershey Medical Center. The team had advanced to the state round after winning the Southeastern Pennsylvania regional championship in October. At that time, Drexel University College of Medicine beat out seven other residency programs from the Philadelphia region, including last year’s national champs Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Richard Hamilton, M.D., chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, was on hand yesterday as Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson underwent training for commercial space travel at Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR^SM) Center in Southampton, PA. Virgin Galactic is on track to become the world's first commercial spaceline and provider of private suborbital spaceflights. Dr. Hamilton is leading the team that is evaluating the medical suitability of those first space tourists to travel on a non-government sponsored vehicle.

Drexel University College of Medicine has announced that autism is the topic of the latest Drexel Medcast™, a monthly medical podcast featuring leading academic physicians and scientists from the Drexel University College of Medicine faculty. This month features an interview with Drs. Richard Malone and John Welsh.