Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

CTSC KL2 Scholar alumna, Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at CWRU, co-chaired the May 29-31, 2019 QSEN Rocks International Forum conference at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. Dr. Dolansky states that “medical error is already the…

“For many years, we started most MS patients on traditional injectable medications that were very safe but had limited efficacy, and even after the advent of HETs, we’ve seen that most people with MS tend to gravitate toward the lower-risk options, when presented with a choice, because they feel…

With a $65.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to address Ohio’s opioid epidemic, a consortium of academic, state and community partners—including nine faculty researchers from Case Western Reserve University—aims to reduce overdose deaths statewide by 40% over the next three…

Join the Case Western Reserve University Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative and partners from Taipei Medical University for an event titled “Expanding Research Together: A Team Building Experience in Global Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” The event will be held Thursday,…

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Haines as one of five CWRU faculty members selected to receive the 2019 Faculty Distinguished Research Award! Dr. Haines is the lead of the CTSC Informatics component and chair of the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of…

Kelli Qua, PhD, Evaluation Associate in the offices of the CTSC and Curricular Affairs and Assessment at the CWRU School of Medicine recently presented at the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) 2019 annual meeting in Toronto. Research by Dr. Qua and co-author Dr. Karpinski at Kent…

Case Western Reserve University’s Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) has selected six teams to participate in the first round of Team Development Retreats. The Community and Collaboration Component of the CTSC selected the multi-disciplinary research teams to turn collective…

A team of evaluators from three different CTSA hubs have used complementary bibliometric approaches to assess the scope, influence, and interdisciplinary collaboration of publications supported by single CTSA hubs and those supported by multiple hubs. Authors identified articles acknowledging CTSA…

We've made a lot of progress in the fight against HIV and the recent announcement of a second patient in remission reignited hope of cure on the horizon. In her widely read article A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized, former Cleveland CTSC KL2 Scholar, Allison Webel, RN, PhD, breaks down…

The Cleveland Brain Health Initiative (CBHI), housed at CWRU, includes the Clinic, UH, MetroHealth, the local VA, NEOMED and Kent State University. So far, the initiative has spent a lot of time creating opportunities for collaboration, including a few established discussion groups that meet…