School of Medicine

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…

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…

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The CWRU School of Law will host a webinar titled “Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do” via Zoom Thursday, Oct. 1, at noon. The webinar will feature: Michael Lederman, professor of medicine at CWRU School of Medicine; Maxwell J. Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the question of whether democracies are more or less effective than autocracies in responding to epidemics. Kelly McMann, professor of political science, and Daniel Tisch, associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences,…

Jason Chao, professor in the School of Medicine, co-authored a study titled “Contributions of US Medical Schools to Primary Care (2003-2014): Determining and Predicting Who Really Goes Into Primary Care.” Current methods for identifying medical school graduates planning to enter primary care…

Efstathios "Stathis” Karathanasis, PhD and William Schiemann, PhD are leading a team of researchers from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) and Duke University combining nanotechnology with immunotherapy to treat metastatic breast cancer. The team received a five-year, $3M grant from…

School of Medicine awarded $2.3 million to study epidemiology, transmission and immunology of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities Almost from the moment COVID-19 reached this nation’s shores, nursing homes have experienced some of its most devastating effects. Within a few months, federal…

As part of its series leading up to the presidential debate, the School of Medicine will host a forum titled “Why Biotech Advances Matter Now More Than Ever” Thursday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. The panel will discuss how biotech has adapted during the pandemic: critical investments in biotech research…

The CWRU physician assistant program invites members of the community to a Q&A event Monday, Sept. 28, at 5 p.m. via Zoom. Cynthia Lord, program director and associate professor, and Jensen Lewis, assistant professor and director of didactic curriculum, will answer questions about application…