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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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April 22, 2020
Outlet: Psychiatric Times
April 22, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to escalate across the U.S., Mark Aulisio joined the first of many teleconferences with MetroHealth Medical Center’s pandemic working group to plan for how they would allocate scarce resources in a crisis that was beginning to seem inevitable. Aulisio, the Susan E.…
April 21, 2020
Outlet: News 5 Cleveland
April 21, 2020
The Kelvin Smith Library's Student Book Collecting Contest is one that we look forward to each year, and are excited to learn about the collections the entrants have assembled to match their interests and passions. This year has brought a particularly delightful set of entries. We are pleased…
April 21, 2020
Outlet: Meaww
April 21, 2020
Outlet: Mashable
April 20, 2020
The college my husband Jim attended had an informal ten-foot rule (even way back then.) The rule was: if you approach another person within ten feet, greet him/her, speak and pass by with pleasantries. The obvious goal behind this rule was to reach out and connect with people. Sadly, our new…
April 20, 2020
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Freedman Fellows Program. This annual award funds well-defined research projects that involve the application of digital tools and methods to scholarly or pedagogical problems. Full-time, board-appointed,…
April 20, 2020
With the significant rise in youth and adolescent diabetes over the last four decades, Rose Gubitosi-Klug’s work has not only changed the understanding of this challenging illness—it has impacted how patients are managed. A member of the Case Western Reserve University faculty since 1999,…
April 20, 2020
Telemedicine Is Not Enough Gizmodo: Amy Sheon, executive director of the School of Medicine’s Urban Health Initiative, offered thoughts on the health and digital disparities that often fall along socioeconomic lines, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic has lifted certain barriers to care—like…