POSITION: Travel health specialist, Penn Travel Medicine YEARS AT PENN: 3, plus 5 at Presbyterian Hospital WHAT HE DOES: People seek out Branagh and his colleagues in Penn
Travel Medicine for advice and immunizations before going abroad.
They offer information about preventative measures, and sell some,
like insect repellent, for a host of common foreign diseases. NUMBER OF VISITORS: About 300 per month; peak season runs from
late April through July CONTACT INFO: 215-662-3706
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)