Dean Pamela's Messages

And so it begins again, a new year, fresh with promise, anchored in the past but striving toward the future. This year will see great things for the School, beginning with the much-anticipated move into the Health Education Campus. The vanguard will be the PA program in early May, followed by the M...

Year’s end puts us in a reflective mood… we consider what we have accomplished and the opportunities before us. This has been a year of celebration of our 175th anniversary as a school of medicine as well as of remarkable achievements by our faculty and students. Our MD program, only one year afte...

Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD As we enter the holiday season, it is a good time to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of the past twelve months as well as our plans for the new year. In 2016 we continued to fulfill our mission by providing superb medical education, making great...

At our Thanksgiving table, my husband raised his glass in a toast. Present were all four of the children in our blended family and their partners, our five grandchildren, plus miscellaneous in-laws. The table was loaded with dishes contributed by each family. The little ones were already consuming t...

Last week we celebrated Veterans Day and Thanksgiving is on Thursday. Among the many things we can be grateful for, it’s important to include our veterans. They have protected our country through thick and thin, wherever the fight might be and whether the wars were popular or not. We can give thank...

On November 1st, 1843, sixty-seven students and six faculty members gathered together to begin classes in the Department of Medicine of Western Reserve University. The students paid $72 in tuition. This was our beginning! This past Thursday was the formal 175th anniversary of the founding class of ...

This past Sunday the New York Times published an extensive front-page article about the repeated failures of a prominent physician scientist to declare potential conflicts of interest on many of the research papers he published. This was even the case for papers in journals that explicitly query aut...

On August 24, we greeted a new class of PhD students from around the world at the annual Seeds of Discovery White Coat ceremony. The following is an edited version of Dean Pamela Davis’ welcoming remarks. I am honored to welcome another brilliant class of new scientists and researchers to Case West...

On Sunday we held a graduation celebration for our first class of students receiving the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies degree. This is the culmination of years of planning, development, engagement, and hard work by Vice Dean Pat Thomas and the program’s director Cindy Lord. The ev...

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of Roland W. Moskowitz, MD, MS, a beloved member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine family and a world-renowned authority and researcher in osteoarthritis. Dr. Moskowitz was a tenured professor in the Department of Medi...