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JungA “Alexa” Woo, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at ���ϳԹ��� School of Medicine, was awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience in November. The award recognizes her contribution to the advancement of women in neuroscience. It was created to…

���ϳԹ��� is among six institutions nationally to receive a prestigious 2024 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Catalyst Award for Transformation in Graduate Medical Education. The six awardees were chosen from a national pool of applicants representing many graduate medical education programs and academic institutions. Case…

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce Agata Exner, PhD, has been appointed director of ���ϳԹ���’s Center for Imaging Research (CCIR). Dr. Exner serves as the Henry Willson Payne Professor and vice chair of basic research in the Department of Radiology and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Physics at…

Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at ���ϳԹ��� School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award. Flask is also director of faculty development in the Department of…

Dear faculty, staff and students, I am pleased to announce I have appointed Peter S. Hovmand, PhD, MSW, as interim director for the Center for Community Health Integration (CHI), succeeding Kurt Stange, MD, PhD, who I announced earlier this week is stepping away from his role as director.

Olivia Dhaliwal, a fourth-year medical student, was named a Pisacano Leadership Foundation 2024 scholar in family medicine. 

Sidney M. Wolfe, MD (MED ’65), adjunct professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine, passed away on Jan. 1, 2024. 

A new study by researchers at ���ϳԹ��� School of Medicine reveals that a chemical used in the diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-management drug Wegovy is not associated with an increased risk for suicidal thoughts.

Dr. Airica Steed, president and CEO of MetroHealth System, has appointed Doris Evans, MD (MED'68), to her leadership team to serve as senior strategic advisor to the president and CEO. 

With $3.5M National Institutes of Health grant, research teams from ���ϳԹ��� / University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Hospital hope to find out  Throughout our lives, changes in our DNA, called genetic mutations, occur in every healthy cell of the human body…

Leadership Appointment: Office of Medical Education  The Office of Medical Education is pleased to announce that Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, MD, has been appointed as the inaugural Associate Dean of Program Innovation and Educational Enhancements. As one of four associate deans reporting to the vice dean for medical education, Dr. Rowland-…

Each December, ���ϳԹ��� School of Medicine students swap their white coats and scrubs for costumes and dance shoes to bring Doc Opera, a variety show that allows medical students to flex their creative muscles, to life. 

Paul Tesar (CWR '03), PhD, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics, was awarded the school's highest honor—the Case Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation—during the School of Medicine State of the School presentation on Dec. 6. 

"Eliminate the difference in healthcare between the poor and the rich" was ���ϳԹ��� School of Medicine emeritus professor Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD (MED, 66) response to the medical school application question on why he wanted to pursue a medical career. In the ensuing five decades, Jackson (CLC ’62, MED ’66) became a…