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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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May 15, 2019
Outlet: Reuters Health
May 14, 2019
Brian Cobb recalled the transforming effects
of his first mentor. “When I was a sophomore at the University of
Oklahoma (OU), I took a class in organic chemistry with Dr. Roland Lehr,” he
said. “I went to his office with a question, and after answering it, he asked
me my plans for a career. I…
May 10, 2019
Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and assistant professor in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, shared some results of the PRCHN's food melt research as a guest writer on Boston University's Public…
May 03, 2019
Outlet: News 5 Cleveland
May 03, 2019
When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt…
April 30, 2019
The 16th annual family-friendly “The Race” will take place this Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the 5K starts at 8:30 a.m., followed by the 1-mile run at 9:30 a.m. The goal of “The Race” is to empower children and their families…
April 30, 2019
$65.9 million federal grant supports multifaceted initiative to cut overdoses by 40% in three years; involves experts from six universities With a $65.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH)
grant to address Ohio’s opioid epidemic, a consortium of academic, state and
community…
April 23, 2019
Sandra W. Jacobson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral
neurosciences at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, will give two
lectures on campus this week. For pediatric grand rounds, Jacobson will give a presentation Thursday, April 25, from 8 to 9 a.m. in the University Hospitals…
April 22, 2019
A beautiful spring day welcomed almost 600 guests for the ribbon cutting ceremony that marked the official opening of the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus. Entering the building as the sun streamed through the skylight into the courtyard, one could sense the electric…