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September 01, 2017
Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Madigan (GRS '92) By Michelle Koski This fall, Elizabeth Madigan, PhD, RN, FAAN, heads to Indianapolis for her new role as chief executive officer of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Madigan, who became the Independence Foundation…
August 30, 2017
Shirley Moore can’t recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the family’s Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didn’t want to be a nurse, to care for others. But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of…
August 16, 2017
Convocation is coming up in a week, signaling the formal start of the CWRU academic year, but things are already gathering momentum. Our new medical students have begun Block 1 and our physician assistant students have had their anatomy final exam. Our bioethics masters program is headed for record…
August 04, 2017
A program that partially forgives student loans for doctoral students who go on to teach nursing is expanding at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at APP, thanks to a new $1.5 million federal grant. The grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration…
July 07, 2017
Julia Blanchette (CWR ’14), a PhD student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, still remembers how distressed she was when she was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 7. She also has never forgotten how much better she felt about living with diabetes when she attended a summer…
July 03, 2017
I saw in the New York Times that Larry Weed, aged 93, passed away on June 3rd. In case you don’t recognize the name, he was the father of the problem-oriented medical record (POMR). I am old enough to recall POMR as novel when I was in medical school, and like most innovations, it had supporters…
June 28, 2017
Elizabeth “Liz” Madigan becomes CEO of Sigma Theta Tau International this fall After a quarter-century at Case Western Reserve, Elizabeth “Liz” Madigan is taking her talents to the international stage. The accomplished researcher and educator has accepted the position of chief executive officer…
June 20, 2017
For a brief period of time, the cafeteria is quiet at noon, the garage is not full and you can park close to the door, and the workmen are putting away tables and mirrors and party items. Graduation is over for 2017. The School of Medicine graduated one of its most accomplished classes last month.…
May 19, 2017
Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nursing recently honored Shirley M. Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research. Moore won the 2017 Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Awardfor Excellence in Research.
May 19, 2017
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation honored Jill Byrne, a PhD student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, with an Innovator Award for Outstanding Innovation in Delivery Solutions. Byrne was selected for her work on a surgical cooling vest. She is studying the effects of the vest for her…