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Get to know Michael Yaffe, CWRU School of Medicine's 2026 Commencement speaker
Commencement marks the moment when students become alumni—when every hour spent in classes, labs and hospital rooms pays off as graduates take the next step on the path to doctorhood.For Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD (GRS ’87, pharmacology; MED ’89), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s…
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March 23, 2021
Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have established the Case Center for Biomarker Structure and Integration for Sensors (BioSIS), a program to advance biosensor technologies using biophysical techniques to understand and improve sensing of markers of stress and…
March 23, 2021
The School of Medicine Class of 2021 were matched to their residency hospitals on Friday, March 19. These fourth-year students achieved a milestone on their journey to become physicians on that day—learning where they will be spending their next years as a resident. In compliance with pandemic…
March 19, 2021
Led by cancer center directors and chief medical officers, the American Association of Cancer Institutes (AACI) initiated a mixed-methods survey of the status of cancer care across cancer center networks, results of which have been recently published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive…
March 19, 2021
Jason Chao, professor of family medicine and community health, was selected for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine 2021 Research Paper of the Year Award. Chao is a co-author of the study “Contributions of US Medical Schools to Primary Care (2003-2014): Determining and Predicting Who Really…
March 19, 2021
Postdoctoral fellow Suman Chaudhary received the ARVO 2021 Travel Grant. The grant covers the fees for Chaudhary to attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s virtual annual meeting. Chaudhary came to the United States in 2018 and started her postdoctoral fellowship in the…
March 19, 2021
Justine Renauld, a postdoctoral scholar at the School of Medicine, recently received the American Hearing Research Foundation grant. Renauld received her PhD from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 2017 for her work on the development of the cytoskeleton in the supporting cells of the organ of…
March 18, 2021
The Faculty Senate Committee on University Libraries and the four University Libraries invite CWRU faculty to participate in a campus forum about a possible proposed policy on Open Access. If approved, the Faculty Open Access Policy would enable broad dissemination of CWRU faculty-authored…
March 18, 2021
The United States Preventive Services Task Force has published updated recommendations addressing eligibility for lung cancer screening with a low-radiation dose chest CT scan. The current recommendations update those published at the end of 2013. The age limits have been expanded to age 50-80…
March 18, 2021
Join the School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences for a webinar and Q&A session to learn more about the MS in biomedical and health informatics program. This lunch and learn session will be held Monday, March 22, from noon to 1 p.m. Mendel Singer,…
March 17, 2021
A four-part live webinar series will bring together researchers, social scientists, clinicians and providers working in various areas of the opioid crisis intervention in Ohio. The Intersecting Pandemics: The Opioid Epidemic & COVID-19 series will explore how COVID-19 is impacting the opioid…