Health + Wellness

Armed with a $3.4M grant, an alumna, assistant professor and new fellow of the American Academy of Nursing is on a mission to improve Black Americans’ health. By Emily Mayock Carolyn Harmon Still, PhD, CNP (GRS ’10, nursing; MGT ’16), was 14 when she began…

Deborah Lindell, DNP (NUR ’03), the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, follows one particular piece of advice in her life: “When you see a possible opportunity show up, take it. You never know what might happen.” It’s that mantra that led her to…

Eight hours a night has long been touted as the optimal amount of sleep to feel rested and restored. Now, a Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing researcher is studying if this same credo could help better control Type 1 diabetes in young adults. “We know that sleep is important for all of us, of…

Funding Opportunities, sponsored by the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

In 2014, Umut Gurkan, associate professor at the Case School of Engineering, received a Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Annual Pilot to develop HemeChip, an accurate, low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic, specialized for low-income countries, to diagnose sickle cell disease.…

All faculty members are eligible to apply to ACES+ Opportunity Grants, which provide small amounts of supplemental support for current or proposed projects and activities where funding is difficult to obtain through other sources. Examples of funding support include: Seed funding for unusual…

Lessons learned by alumni navigating the highs and lows of leadership during the COVID-19 crisis Kari Cunningham, DMD (pictured here with her niece), owns Panther Pediatric Dentistry in Euclid, Ohio. Kari Cunningham, DMD (DEN ‘10, ‘12), has a…

Case Western Reserve-led team to test artificial intelligence medical imaging to determine which rectal cancer patients need surgery—or can avoid it Building on its successes in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging to enhance treatment of other diseases, a Case Western Reserve…

“When you see a possible opportunity show up, take it. You never know what might happen,” said Deborah Lindell (NUR ’03), the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a new Fulbright Scholar who departed in September for an eight-month sojourn to…

To honor her father while he was in intensive care and hospice, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine second-year medical student Kathleen Mulligan wrote a song as a tribute to her father during his last few days.   The lyrics to Mulligan’s song will be performed on Saturday,…