Dr. Robert Lennon provides resident and medical student education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Dr. Robert Lennon's research interests include messaging efficacy during pandemics, osteopathic manipulative therapies for the treatment of chronic migraine, using folate derivatives to reduce oxidative stress in living tissue, therapies to reduce opioid use in persons with chronic pain and bioethics.

His current research includes projects on:

• COVID-19 health messaging efficacy in health care workers
• An interdisciplinary partnership to develop translational research in topical reducing agents to reduce reactive oxygen species on skin
• Osteopathic manipulative techniques for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches
• Portability of curricular changes to increase resident research
• Building a foundation for research into moral injury as an etiology of health care worker distress
• Developing multimedia educational modules as a method of teaching research topics, including how to build research capacity
• In-field training methods during humanitarian missions
• Using mock trial as an educational modality to teach legal challenges faced by sports medicine physicians
• Studying social determinants and health characteristics of Amazon River basin populations

Dr. Robert Lennon provides outpatient primary care through the Department of Family and Community Medicine, part of Penn State Health/Penn State College of Medicine.

Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences - Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications (CENSAI)