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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty member Karen Mulloy won the 2023 F. Marian Bishop Educator Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). This award recognizes an APTR member who has made significant and outstanding contributions to the instructi...

A group of Cleveland Metropolitan School District School (CMSD) of Science and Medicine 11th graders visited Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine on Feb. 16, to participate in the Cardiovascular Inquiry Seminar Series (CISS). Launching in 2012, the CISS is a four-part lecture series cu...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, which includes Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, again ranked as a top medical school of research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research 2022 report. The School o...

The University of Southern California Innovations in Medical Education Conference has recognized a student-faculty team from Case Western Reserve University for their climate change project—accepting their poster for consideration for several awards at the upcoming February meeting. The abstract, “L...

Eighty years after the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) carved up the nation’s metropolitan neighborhoods into redlined maps, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine performed an autopsy on the discriminatory lending practice. Specifically, researchers examined...

To address inequities in community-wide healthcare by increasing number of public-health practitioners City of Cleveland residents who lack access to healthcare will benefit from a new Case Western Reserve University-led program designed to increase the number of public-health practitioners serving...

A Columbia University oncologist renowned for his translational research, mentoring and leadership will become director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) this spring. Gary Schwartz, chief of the Hematology & Oncology Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and...

Second-year Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine student Adam Rizk has been awarded the Thomas and Cynthia Sculco Research Award for his poster presentation titled, “Are Trends in Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty Sustainable? Declining Inflation-Adjusted Medicare Reimbursement for Hos...

Colleagues - I am pleased to announce the appointment of Sudha Chakrapani, PhD, as the interim chair of the Department of Pharmacology. A member of the School of Medicine faculty since 2010, Dr. Chakrapani is the Joseph T. Wearn, MD, University Professor in Medicine; director of the Cryo-Electr...

As 2022 comes to a close, we are looking back at some of the top research highlights in the School of Medicine—including discoveries that will lead to paradigm-shifting, practice and policy-changing impacts. Grace McComsey and researchers lead a national site to study to unravel the mystery of lo...