Alumni and friends
Creating connections among and celebrating the achievements of our graduates and donors
HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS
Whether they studied on campus five or 50 years ago, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine alumni who returned for Homecoming and Reunion Weekend in October likely noticed significant changes to the places—and ways—in which they once learned.
But they got an up-close look through events such as “A Day in the Life of a Medical Student,” which featured the school’s Zubizarreta Family Immersive Learning Suite, and “A Look at Our Student-Run Health Clinic,” which showcased the collaborative care provided to Cleveland residents by medical, nursing, dental and social work students. Plus, many events throughout the weekend took place at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic—the 485,000-square-foot building less than a mile from CWRU’s main campus where medical, nursing, and dental students have learned and studied alongside each other since 2019.
SAVE THE DATE
Homecoming and Reunion Weekend 2024 is set for Nov. 14-17
Among the key events: mentoring and networking sessions for medical and graduate students and alumni; a brunch with students from the Student National Medical Association and Latino Medical Student Association; and the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, in which Nina Russell, MD (MED ’93), director of tuberculosis and HIV research and development in the Global Health Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shared the importance of taking a “world view” to medical advances. Additionally, alumni, faculty, students, staff, and university leadership connected at the Dean’s Reunion Soiree, which not only featured instrumental and capella vocal performances by medical students but also the Medical Alumni Awards (see p. 50).