Health + Wellness

Gary Schwartz leads a top cancer center, but still sees patients and meets regularly with community members as he pursues a clear vision: 'Everybody should have access to the latest advances in cancer medicine'

New lymphoma T-cell therapy, made in less than a day, shows promising results with fewer side effects

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have found that semaglutide, a popular diabetes and weight-loss drug, may lower the risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Dementia, a condition that slowly makes it harder for people to remember things and think clearly, oc...

Air Force Research Laboratory grant funds nanomedicine research Anirban Sen Gupta Case Western Reserve University and University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have received an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant to test platelet-inspired nanotherapeutics to treat traumatic brain injurie...

Valerie Toly Associate Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing The Carl W. and Margaret Davis Walter Professorship in Pediatric Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Area of focus: Families of children who are technology dependent; children with chronic illness; normalization a...

Madge Potts-Williams, DDS (DEN ’81) Madge Potts-Williams, DDS (DEN ’81) has been named the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award—an honor that reflects her remarkable 44-year legacy of excellence in clinical practice, dental education, and organized dentistry. Through her unwavering com...

Morgan S. Celistan, DMD, MMSc (DEN ‘20) Morgan S. Celistan, DMD, MMSc (DEN ‘20) has been named the 2025 Outstanding New Dentist. Her dedication to patient care, academia and curriculum development, participation in organized dentistry, and mentorship of dental students have set a new benchmark for ...

Kenneth B. Chance, DDS (DEN ‘79) Kenneth B. Chance, DDS (DEN ‘79), former 2004 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award, is being honored with the 2025 Special Recognition Award for his twenty years of distinguished leadership service to Case Western Reserve University and the School of Dental ...

In collaboration with the Community Advisory Board (CAB), the CTSC is working to strengthen Community Engaged Research (CER) capacity across its institutional and community partners. To support this goal, we are developing a CER training that draws on core principles of community engagement. Guided...

On April 26, 2025, Dr. Sarah Ronis, a Clinical & Translational Science (CTS) Research Program awardee and recent Co-Investigator on a 2024 Annual Pilot award with the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) of Northern Ohio, shared important new research at the Pediatric Academic Soc...