Health + Wellness

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,…

On Friday, Dec. 3, I presented a town hall to faculty and staff on the State of the School of Medicine. I would like to briefly summarize that conversation and provide a link to the webcast for your review.  Thank you to the 60 or so people who joined us in person and the more than 200 who…

I am pleased to announce Cynthia Kubu, PhD, ABPP-CN, has been appointed Vice Dean for Faculty for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. One of our top strategic priorities is building and enhancing collaborations with faculty across our five campuses—Case Western Reserve University…

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University, Duke and Rutgers lead work to understand how the novel coronavirus’s tangled RNA could help treat infected people Scientists at Case Western Reserve, Duke, and Rutgers universities have identified compounds within the coronavirus genome that have…

Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office on front lines of another epidemic plaguing nation When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn’t COVID-19—but drugs. Over a 48-hour period Nov. 6…