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Pamela B. Davis returns to faculty after 13 years as School of Medicine dean
Tenure included Northeast Ohio’s two largest federal research grants, gains for Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cleveland Clinic collaboration to create Health Education Campus After a 13-year tenure that saw the School of Medicine swing from multi-million-dollar deficits to record-breaking…
School of Dental Medicine 2020 Specialty Program Graduates
The Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine recognizes those students graduating from our various graduate studies programs.  “On behalf of our faculty and staff, I wish to extend our deepest congratulations to this year’s graduating post-graduate program students,” said School…
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Farewell
This will be my last Dean’s message. I’ve spent quite a spectacular week with lots of wonderful virtual send-offs from my visiting committee, my leadership team, the development team, several groups of chairs, some of my colleagues, and the Medical Alumni Board—who invited a good many people to…
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Barnholtz-Sloan among cancer researchers honored with 2020 Team Science Award from American Association for Cancer Research
Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD, is on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) team recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) for its annual AACR Team Science Awards. The awards were made during the AACR Virtual Annual Meeting. Barnholtz-Sloan is the Sally S. Morley Designated Professor…
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Medtronic awards $1M gift toward establishing new endowed professorship at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, has committed $1 million over five years to fund an endowed professorship at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The new “Medtronic Professor of Biomedical Discovery and Innovation” will be used to recruit new faculty or retain…
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Last Things
Last week I had the last meeting of my Visiting Committee. They are distinguished academics, alumni, businessmen and others with interest who have taken time and contributed energy to the School of Medicine. It was by Zoom—it certainly wasn’t supposed to be that way! We were supposed to have a…
Barnholtz-Sloan receives Women of Professional Excellence Award from YWCA of Greater Cleveland
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD as she recently received a 2020 YWCA of Greater Cleveland Women of Professional Excellence award. The award has honored more than 1,500 women since its inception in 1977. Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan is Associate…
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Videoconferencing interventions reduce anxiety, distress in remote caregivers
Researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University shared promising results from a recent study of videoconferencing-inspired stress reduction of distance caregivers of people with cancer. Sara L. Douglas, lead author of the study, and the Gertrude…
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A new weapon in the fight against sickle cell disease
Technology behind this week’s launch of Hemex Health’s “Gazelle” diagnostic platform was developed by researchers at Case Western Reserve University A technology developed initially at Case Western Reserve University is behind the global launch this week by a Portland, Oregon, company of a new,…