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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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October 09, 2020
Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, chief of the Forensic Psychiatry program at University Hospitals and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s (GAP) Committee on Psychiatry & Law, received the 2020…
October 08, 2020
Case Western Reserve University scientists are working toward performing heart catheterization and cardiac ablation with a micro robotic device, controlled by a doctor wearing a mixed-reality headset—all while the patient is inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Cardiac ablation is…
October 08, 2020
Case Western Reserve team working toward first augmented-reality heart catheterization, ablation while patient is inside an MRI Case Western Reserve University scientists are working toward performing heart catheterization and cardiac ablation with a micro robotic device, controlled by a doctor…
October 08, 2020
CWRU students are invited to attend "Public Health @CWRU," an MPH and public health minor information session, Friday, Oct. 9, from 1 to 2 p.m. via Zoom. The information session will feature guest speakers Daniel Tisch, director of the Master of Public Health Program, and Scott Frank, director of…
October 05, 2020
One of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one of every 70 will die from overdoses A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine calculates the lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States. The lifetime…
October 05, 2020
One of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one of every 70 will die from overdoses A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine calculates the lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States. The lifetime…
October 02, 2020
The School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the fifth webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series Wednesday, Oct. 7, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EST. The theme of this webinar will be “Epidemics of Inequities: COVID-19 and the Opioid Crisis.” The…
September 30, 2020
Outlet: Cincinnati Enquirer
September 30, 2020
Ita Rebecca Kaiserman-Abramof, professor emerita of anatomy, passed away earlier this month. Kaiserman-Abramof had a long career at Case Western Reserve University, teaching from 1971 to 2015. Prior to arriving at CWRU, Kaiserman-Abramof graduated from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in…
September 29, 2020
Last week, the School of Medicine held a series of four live, virtual health care forums and a student forum as a run-up to this week’s presidential debate at our Health Education Campus. Attendance was good for the live forums, the discussions were lively, and those who attended asked the…