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Fact Sheet

Penns Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is ranked
amongst the top 20 programs in US News & World Report.

Penn has the nations first medical school and university
teaching hospital (HUP) as well as the nations first hospital
(Pennsylvania Hospital).

Named to the annual "Honor Roll" of hospitals by
U.S. News & World Report for the sixth straight year.

Penn is ranked second in the U.S. for National Institutes of
Health (NIH) research funding.

Penns high profile programs include Level I Trauma, major
organ transplantation and gene therapies.

Penn has the oldest Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
(PM&R) department in the U.S.

Penn has trained many prominent and historically important
physiatrists including Howard A. Rusk, M.D.

Penn has pioneered some of the essential rehabilitation
treatments including prosthetics and orthotics, and computer
based vocational training.

Penn ranks among the highest PM&R departments nationally
for NIH funding.

Penn claims the only Spine Center in the U.S. that is based
in an academic Rehabilitation Medicine department.