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CWRU School of Medicine named among the best medical schools by U.S. News & World Report
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is one of the best medical schools for research in the country, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings that were released on April 7. Named a Tier 1 Medical School for Research, the designation…
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May 11, 2023
The Delta Dental Foundation provided a grant allowing five School of Dental Medicine students—Erin Madar, Gina DeLeonibus, Rhea Pate, Laura Smith and Derek Fickes—to attend the Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA) 35th Annual Meeting in Special Care Dentistry in Dallas, Texas, April 27 through…
May 11, 2023
Amid intense criticism from leading law and medical schools, magazine adjusts methodologies to emphasize outcomes—and delays final figures to help ensure accuracy Case Western Reserve’s medical school slipped one notch—and the law school two—as U.S. News & World Report shared results for the…
May 10, 2023
I study parents who kill their kids. There's one thing people don't understand about these cases. HuffPost: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, weighed in on recent cases of parents who have murdered their…
May 10, 2023
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a virtual information session about the Master of Science in Applied Anatomy program Thursday, May 11, from 10 to 11 a.m. Graduates report that the program prepared them to take the next step in achieving their academic and…
May 08, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will celebrate graduating students May 17–21, during commencement week. Extensive training, critical hands-on experience and invaluable mentorship have prepared these students to become leaders and innovators in their chosen healthcare professions…
May 08, 2023
Kelvin Smith Library celebrated National Library Week 2023 by hosting a Six Word Story Contest with the theme, "There's More to the Story..." Over 100 CWRU students, staff, and faculty submitted their stories through an online form and in-person at KSL. A panel of four library literature…
May 08, 2023
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the probability of missed appointments in a busy clinic—followed up with personal outreach to at-risk patients—improved “show rates” for patients, especially those who were Black, according to a new study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve…
May 07, 2023
For thousands of years, versions of the saying “laughter is the best medicine” have emerged in religious, scientific and popular literature—and for good reason. Laughter helps our neurological, physical, emotional, cognitive and social health and well-being in multiple ways. To find out why…
May 05, 2023
Voting is a social determinant of health that can help advance Clevelanders’ well-beingcleveland.com: Zain Khawaja, a second-year student at the School of Medicine, noted that voting was recently recognized as a social determinant of health by the American Medical Association, the country’s largest…
May 03, 2023
Food insecurity—the lack of steady access to nutritionally adequate food—during pregnancy is linked to premature births and poorer health for low-income mothers and their babies, contributing to staggering rates of infant mortality in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. To address this critical need, a…