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President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that they have named Stan Gerson as the medical school’s dean and the university’s senior vice president for medical affairs. His appointment begins Oct. 1. “We are delighted that Stan will continue to provide the exceptional…

����APP researchers, in partnership with Brown University, examine vaccine’s effectiveness over time on seniors and their caregivers A new, multi-institutional study led by ����APP—in partnership with Brown University—found that COVID-19 antibodies…

Stuart Youngner first came to ����APP in 1966 to attend medical school. He loved it so much, he decided to stay. After decades of teaching and sustained contributions to the evolution of bioethics knowledge and approaches in Cleveland and beyond, Youngner retired in July…

The Office of Medical Education is pleased to announce two new educational leaders in the School of Medicine. Please join us in welcoming them to their new roles. Anastasia Rowland-Seymour Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, MD has been appointed as…

The Master of Science in Anesthesia (MSA) Program is pleased to announce a new educational site in Austin, Texas. It will matriculate the first class in May 2022.     The Austin location follows the establishment of the main site in Cleveland in 1970, and off-site locations in Houston and…

Two years ago, Garrett Weskamp, now a third-year MD student in the School of Medicine, formed a student group focused on providing support for the LGBTQ+ community at the school.  That group, Case Med Pride, was named the 2021 Chapter of the Year by Medical…

Eric B. Photography The School of Medicine welcomed the incoming class of PhD students beginning their biomedical research career at the annual “Seeds of Discovery” White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 20. Interim Dean Stan Gerson stressed the importance of donning the white coat as a…

Center is one of 31 NIH-funded centers in the nation The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant expected to total $15.4 million to continue funding the Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The new five-year award will support the…

Mukesh Jain, the Ellery Sedgwick Chair and Distinguished Scientist in the Department of Medicine at ����APP, is internationally recognized for his discovery of the role of a family of factors termed Kruppel-like factors (KLFs)—DNA-binding proteins that regulate a host of…

Emergency room patients who were flagged by an artificial-intelligence algorithm for possibly having sepsis received antibiotics sooner and had better outcomes, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted by physician-researchers at ����APP and MetroHealth. Their findings…