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Breianna Hummer
Clinical Exercise Physiologist in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Pennsylvania,United States
Penn State College of Medicine
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In 1963, The M.S. Hershey Foundation offered $50 million to The Pennsylvania State University to establish a medical school in Hershey. With this grant and $21.3 million from the U.S. Public Health Service, the University built a medical school, research center, and teaching hospital—Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The University broke ground in 1966, and Penn State College of Medicine opened its doors to students in 1967. Penn State Hershey Medical Center accepted its first patients in 1970.The College of Medicine was the first in the nation to have a dedicated Department of Humanities and a Department of Family and Community Medicine. Both were original departments as the College opened.The original buildings on the Medical Center campus included the Medical Science Building and University Hospital, Animal Research Farm, Laundry and Steam Plant, and University Manor Apartments. Since 1970, the campus has grown from 318 acres to 550 acres. Many additions have been made to the academic and patient care facilities, reflecting the steady increase in patient demand for services and the need to expand research and teaching programs.Since the first graduate in 1969, Penn State College of Medicine students have become productive physicians and scientists. As of May 2009, the College of Medicine had graduated 3,756 physicians and 938 scientists and other biomedical professionals with Ph.D., M.S., or professional master's degrees.The College of Medicine offers degree programs in anatomy, biochemistry and molecular biology, bioengineering, cell and molecular biology, genetics, homeland security, immunology and infectious diseases, integrative biosciences, laboratory animal medicine, microbiology and immunology, molecular medicine, molecular toxicology, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, and public health sciences. To date, 3,321 resident physicians have been trained in medical specialties at the Medical Center.Nursing students from ...