Division
General Internal Medicine
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The Division of General Internal Medicine is committed to providing compassionate patient-centered care, innovating in medical education, attaining academic achievement, and conducting quality research.
Division Chief
Education in General Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency
General Internal Medicine Fellowship
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Research in General Internal Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine faculty and staff are actively engaged in innovative research, supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Centers for Disease Control, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and other federal and non-federal sponsors. Areas of expertise include behavioral medicine, health services research, physical activity interventions, chronic disease management with a focus on diabetes, electronic health record and claims data-based research, end-of-life care, family planning and women’s health, medical education research, humanities in medicine, and health systems science. In Fiscal Year 2021, the division had nearly $22 million in research funding and faculty contributed more than 75 peer-reviewed publications.
Division faculty are integral to the research mission at the Penn State College of Medicine, with leadership roles in the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Center for Women’s Health Research and the Penn State Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction.
Division researchers are actively engaged in research beyond Penn State as well. Exemplars include the PCORNet PaTH Network, part of PCORI’s national network of institutions collaborating to utilize the electronic health record for innovative research, and Project ECHO, where Penn State researchers lead the national Impact Collaborative for the over 220 institutions nationally engaged in the ECHO movement.
Research Leadership
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Medicine
Penn State Health General Internal Medicine faculty members are actively engaged in research, including that funded by federal and non-federal sponsors.
Topics of interest include:
Behavioral medicine
Bioethics
Brief interventions
Chronic medical conditions
Complementary, alternative, mind-body and integrated medicine
Delirium/dementia
Domestic violence
End-of-life care
Evidence-based medicine
Family planning
Fitness, nutrition and weight control
Geriatric medicine
Health information technology
History of medicine
Humanities in medicine
Informed decision-making
Medical education
Palliative care
Patient education and safety
Women’s health
Current Studies
View active internal medicine clinical trials in StudyFinder, our searchable database of clinical research taking place at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.
Contact Us
To speak to someone about internal medicine research, please call 717-531-8161.
Clinical Care in General Internal Medicine
The Division of General Internal Medicine provides compassionate, patient-centered primary care and palliative care services for adult patients. The division’s primary care practice site, Cocoa Outpatient Center, is located at 1150 Cocoa Avenue in Hershey, where physicians deliver comprehensive primary care for adults, including preventive health services, chronic disease management and acute care needs. Additional services include the addiction medicine clinic, procedure clinic, medical consultation clinic and acute respiratory clinic.
The section of Palliative Medicine, led by Dr. Kristina Newport, is an interdisciplinary program with board-certified palliative medicine physicians, advance practice clinicians, social work, spiritual care and nursing, providing consultative palliative care to both outpatients and hospitalized patients.
In addition to adult primary care and palliative medicine, many Division of General Internal Medicine faculty also provide patient care services in the areas of hospital medicine, geriatric medicine, addiction medicine and perioperative medicine.
