Health + Wellness

Edward Barksdale, MD, professor and chief of Pediatric Surgery, Rainbow Babies & Children's University Hospitals, presented the 2024 School of Medicine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. keynote lecture on Jan. 17 titled, "From Health Equity to Health Justice: A Passionate Call for Transformative Change." ...

CWRU senior to showcase Asclepii at the prestigious festival’s 15th annual pitch competition

On Jan. 2 of this year, Barbara Sciulli celebrated her 50th anniversary working at Case Western Reserve. Since Nov. of 1985, Barbara has supported the School of Dental Medicine as registrar and financial aid advisor, but her journey at Case Western Reserve began at the Controller’s Office in the A...

Reshmi Parameswaran, MS, PhD, member of Case CCC's Immune Oncology Program, was awarded a two-year, $200,000 Established Investigator Grant by the National Scleroderma Foundation. The funding supports her research using BAFF CAR-T treatment for systemic sclerosis. Systemic scleroderma (SSc) is a ra...

A Bond Abroad Growing as nursing professionals—and colleagues—far from home Writer: Matthew Merchant After a seven-hour flight to Antigua, Guatemala, and a rough truck ride into the mountainous region, a small group of Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing students—and one faculty member—arrived l...

Celebrating a Century School of Nursing marks milestone with centennial gala Writer: Matthew Merchant It was an evening 100 years in the making. Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing celebrated the centennial of its namesake endowment with a gala at Tinkham Veale University Center during Homecomi...

This letter appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Forefront Magazine. From the Dean To the alumni and friends of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, As we begin a new year, I can’t help but reflect on the accomplishments that the previous one has brought to our community. We celebrated the...

Rethinking Care A new paradigm for patients and caregivers at the end of life Writer: Ilima Loomis What constitutes high-quality care at the end of a person’s life? Current standards say the best medical care focuses on keeping the patient comfortable in their last 30 days, with few, if any, aggres...

Class Notes, Honors & In Memoriam These items appeared in the Winter 2023 issue of Forefront Magazine. Class Notes Submissions received between May 24 and Nov. 28, 2023. Rob Davis, DNP, RN (NUR ’97, ’05, ’08), was inducted as a fellow at the Academy of Wilderness Medicine at the academy’s confer...

Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, Chair of the Genetics and Genome Sciences Department and co-leader of Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, was awarded a grant for $2,012,500 from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute for his research titled Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramm...