The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The university claims a founding date of 1740 and is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder and first president, advocated an educational program that trained leaders in commerce, government, and public service, similar to a modern liberal arts curriculum with a practical perspective.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. Considered one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school, and was established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
Leonard Abramson, born in 1932, Pennsylvania, is a philanthropist and the founder and former CEO of U.S. Healthcare.
David J. Brailer is known for his leadership and advocacy for health information technology specifically founding and investing in leading health IT companies.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, more commonly known as Penn Engineering or SEAS, is an undergraduate and graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. The School offers programs that emphasize hands-on study of engineering fundamentals while encouraging students to leverage the educational offerings of the broader University. Engineering students can also take advantage of research opportunities through interactions with Penn’s School of Medicine, School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. According to U.S. News & World Report, the School of Nursing at Penn is among the top-ranked graduate nursing schools in the United States. The School of Nursing receives approximately $480 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, making it among the most highly funded nursing schools in the country.
Lawton R. Burns is an American business theorist, Professor of Management and the Chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, and a Faculty Co-Director for the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management.
Patrick Timothy Harker is the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Harker previously served as the President of University of Delaware. He was the dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2007. He began his presidency of the University of Delaware in 2007 and resigned in 2015.
Mauro F. Guillén is a Spanish/American sociologist, political economist, management educator. In March 2021. he was announced as the new Director (Dean) of the Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Fellow of Queen's College at the University of Cambridge. Until July 2021, he was the Zandman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). He was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything (2020).
William F. Hamilton is the Ralph Landau Professorship of Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a management consultant.
Mark V. Pauly is an American economist whose work focuses on healthcare management and business economics. He is currently the Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and has been a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Enterprise Institute, and served on the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, and was formerly the Robert D. Eilers Professor from 1984 to 1989.
Gerardo J. "G.J." Meléndez-Torres is professor of Clinical and Social Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, England and Director of PenTAG.
Daniel Elias Polsky is an American health economist. He is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
Karen Glanz is an American behavioral epidemiologist. She is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Glanz is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been recognized as one of the world's most influential scientific minds.
Katrina Alison Armstrong is an American internist. She is the Jackson Professor and chief of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the first woman to hold the position of Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Raina Martha Merchant is an American emergency medicine specialist. She is the associate vice president and director of the Center for Digital Health in Penn Medicine and associate professor of emergency medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rinad S. Beidas is an American clinical child psychologist and implementation scientist. She is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI).
Rachel Michele Werner is an American physician-economist. She is the first woman and first physician-economist executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In 2018, Werner was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for her investigation into the unintended consequences of quality improvement incentives.
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Entrance to the Colonial Penn Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Inside the Colonial Penn Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Sign outside the Colonial Penn Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Leonard and Sophie Davis Auditorium in the Colonial Penn Center, University of Pennsylvania.
