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Health Law Improved Access to Cancer Treatment, Studies Show
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School of Dental Medicine announces first-of-its-kind craniofacial orthodontics fellowship in country
A gift from the Mt. Sinai Foundation will launch the nation’s first named and accredited craniofacial fellowship at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. The Mt. Sinai-Dr. Edward Reiter Fellowship program was modeled after the successful Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Sc...
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Nurses Poised to Take the Lead on Ensuring Patient Safety in U.S. Health Care System
CTSC KL2 Scholar alumna, Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at CWRU, co-chaired the May 29-31, 2019 QSEN Rocks International Forum conference at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. Dr. Dolansky states that “medical error is already the third-l...
American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2019: Highlights from the Case CCC
The 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting will take place Friday, May 31 through Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. ASCO offers a robust program designed to teach, engage and bring the oncology field together. The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Ca...
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International nursing conference focuses on patient safety
Experts look to technology to address third-leading cause of U.S. deaths: medical error Nurses are poised to take the lead on ensuring patient safety in an American health care system, where they already make up 35% of the workforce, according to Mary Dolansky, co-chair of an international nursing ...
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Case Comprehensive Cancer Center awarded nearly $9 million to expand access to clinical trials
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has been selected, once again, as a Lead Academic Participating Site by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The renewal comes with a six-year, $8.9 million grant that will enable the center to provide patients with additional access to clinical trials through the Na...
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Carol M. Musil named next Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing dean
President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that a double alumna of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will become its next dean. Carol M. Musil, interim dean at the nursing school since August and the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor of Nursing, succeeds Mary E. Kerr, who steppe...
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Father-daughter graduates to celebrate special commencement day May 19
That’s six Case Western Reserve degrees for the Martin family and counting Commencement day, Sunday, May 19, will be especially busy for the Martin family. So busy that they’ve made special arrangements. “We’re here for the whole day,” said Richard Martin. “We boarded the dog for two days because...