School of Medicine
From driving cutting-edge research to bringing medical innovations to market, landing competitive awards and more, the faculty, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know how to make headlines.
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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
Recent News
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March 06, 2020
Rohit Anand, a student in the School of Medicine, wrote an article advocating for universal healthcare such as the Medicare for All system proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders. Anand discusses the possibility of such a system and the advantages it would bring.
Read Anand's piece, "The Real Choices i...
March 06, 2020
Outlet: WEWS...
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February 27, 2020
Ted Parran is re-educating physicians who may have helped fuel the opioid epidemic
For as long as the opioid crisis has dominated headlines, the question of who's to blame has festered. Ted Parran Jr., the Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and chair in medical education at Case Western Reserve's Sch...
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February 26, 2020
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III
announced today that they have appointed Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director
Stan Gerson to serve as interim dean for the medical school and interim senior
vice president for medical affairs.
Both appointments are effective July 1.
Gerso...
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February 24, 2020
Saarang Deshpande and David Ritzenthaler, medical students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Nicole Rudert and Jensen Lewis, assistant professors in the university's physician assistant program, recently had their article on the flipped classroom published in Medical Teacher...
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February 21, 2020
The Master of Public Health (MPH) program turned 20 years old this week, celebrating the milestone with a symposium and dinner celebration on February 20, 2020. A dynamic program of education, research, and service, the mission of the Public Health program is to prepare students to develop, implemen...
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February 21, 2020
Mark Chance, vice dean for research and director of the Center of Proteomics and Bioinformatics in the School of Medicine, recently provided witness testimony to a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives during the oversight hearing on the Department of Energy’s role in advancing medical s...
February 20, 2020
The researchers used Artificial Intelligence (AI)—in this case, computer image analysis of the initial MRI scans taken of brain cancer patients—and compared that image analysis with genomic research to analyze the cancer. The result: a new and more accurate way to not only determine the relative lif...
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February 20, 2020
Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article, “What Genetic Testing Teaches about Predictive Health Analytics Regulation.”
The paper argues that like genetic testing, predictive health analytics raise significant concerns about psychological harm,...