Health + Wellness

On Saturday, May 18, the School of Dental Medicine diploma ceremony was held at the Maltz Performing Arts Center Silver Hall. Faculty, staff, students, friends and family gathered to celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2024.  Craig S. Hirschberg, DDS, immediate past president of the…

Eduarda Grinsztejn, MD, Case CCC Trainee Associate member, is one of nine individuals selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) for its 2024 ASH Minority Hematology Fellow Award (MHFA). This award encourages early-career researchers from historically underrepresented groups in the United…

An inter-organizational group of researchers and administrators from Case CCC recently published their work, "Impact of clinical trial design on recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities," in the Journal of Cancer Education. Case CCC affiliates include Population and Cancer Prevention Program…

Alumni, faculty, staff and students gathered on April 23 to hear Thomas Van Dyke, DDS, PhD (DEN ‘73) present “What Is the Potential for Changing Dental Practice Through University-Based Dental Research?” Attendees learned about Dr. Van Dyke’s research on periodontitis and the effects of new…

Jed Hildebrand, DDS, MSD (DEN '06) enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame between his third and fourth year of dental school. Today, he says with a perfect smile, “No regrets! I enjoy helping people get the smile they want far more than the lights, camera, action and fame from being a television…

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the spring 2024 edition of Dental Medicine magazine. View a PDF of the magazine. In the U.S., nearly 80 million people live in communities with inadequate numbers of dentists, also known as health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). Each of…

Members of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio made their way to the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV from April 3-5 for Translational Science 2024, a national conference focusing on Innovating to Increase Equity across clinical research and…

The inaugural class of physician-scientists gathered with Case CCC leadership to celebrate the start of the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)—an initiative aimed at developing leaders to take Case CCC to and beyond the half-century mark. The highly competitive selection process identified 10…

Each month, the Center for Research and Scholarship at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sends an internal research newsletter to faculty, staff, students and researchers. A recap is posted here. Message from the Associate Dean for Research The National Institutes of Health (NIH),…

The Hartwell Foundation, a Memphis-based philanthropic institution that funds innovative biomedical research to benefit children of the United States, has again selected Case Western Reserve University among its 2024 Top 10 Centers of Biomedical Research. The other 2024 Hartwell Top 10 Research…