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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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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 12, 2020
This tagline captures a great deal of the work of our School of Medicine. This week, these values were rewarded by our rise to #20 in medical school NIH research funding reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Biomedical Research rankings. Congratulations to all of our investigators!
Case…
March 08, 2020
Scientists better predict recurrence of prostate cancer for black patients, according to new study; land $3.2 million in federal grants to explore racial bias in cancer diagnosis using Artificial Intelligence, computational imaging Scientists at Case Western Reserve University are using Artificial…
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…
March 06, 2020
Outlet: WEWS
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…