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Josiah Macy, JR. Foundation Grant to Enhance Physician and Nursing Education With Student-Run Free Clinic and More at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ
CLEVELAND - ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ's School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing have received a $640,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to fund the new Interprofessional Learning Exchange and Development (I-LEAD) Program. The project will involve several exper...
Reported Surgical Quality Measures Not Associated With Lower Infection Rates
CLEVELAND - A study by investigators at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine published in this week’s issue of JAMA found that public hospital comparison data reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not accurately correlate with a patient’s risk for surgical p...
Major Jama Study Examines Cystic Fibrosis Survival Rates and MRSA Infections
CLEVELAND — A team of researchers led by Elliott Dasenbrook, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Childr...
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ Receives $5 Million Ohio Third Frontier Grant to Establish New Imaging Center with University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Philips Healthcare
CLEVELAND - ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ and its primary affiliate, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, recently announced that they will establish a Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center in partnership with Philips Healthcare. The Center, to be based at University Hospitals Case Medica...
Neal J. Meropol, MD, Appointed Chief of Hematology and Oncology at UH Case Medical Center and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine
CLEVELAND - Neal J. Meropol, MD, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine. Dr. Meropol, who is also Associate Director for Clinical Research at ...
Michael W. Konstan, MD, Appointed Chairman of Pediatrics at UH Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine
CLEVELAND - Michael W. Konstan, MD, has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine. Dr. Konstan, a pioneer in the field of cystic fibrosis, has been ...
CWRU Global TB Expert Receives Prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award
CLEVELAND - Anna Maria Mandalakas, MD, MSEpi, associate professor of Pediatrics, Global Health and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a 2010 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship....
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine Receives Nearly $8M in Federal Funding to Help Providers Enable Adoption of Electronic Health Records in Ohio
CLEVELAND - ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ (CWRU) School of Medicine has received $7,942,500 in federal stimulus funds from the Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP), the state designated entity for health information exchange development. The funding will position CWRU School of Medicine as a...
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine Team Discovers "Smart" Insulin Protein Molecule That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Care
CLEVELAND - For millions of Americans with Type-2 diabetes and inject insulin to control diabetes (with onset typically in adulthood) the associated risk of cancer is of increasing concern. Studies have demonstrated that obesity and excess insulin-whether naturally produced by the body or injected i...
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ First to Prove Validated Instrument to Measure aa-Related Helping
CLEVELAND—Maria Pagano, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine, has established an empirical model to quantify and gauge an alcohol addicts' level of engagement in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)-related helping (AAH). The instrument validity study, "R...