obituary
July 28, 2023
The APP community is mourning the loss of staff member Amad Awadallah, who died July 22. He was 50. Awadallah got his start at the university as an undergraduate student in the fall of 1991. During that time, he worked as a work study student in the Caplan Lab, housed…
July 11, 2023
Clark Distelhorst, a long-standing faculty member of the APP School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away July 3. His wife, Lynne, shared that Distelhorst was…
June 12, 2023
The APP community is mourning the loss of groundskeeper James Bossard, who died June 2. He was 64. When Bossard began working at the university more than 30 years ago, it marked a new chapter in an extensive family legacy. Bossard’s great grandfather, Emil, was the…
May 04, 2023
In September, Brian Bowers took on a role that had long been in flux: that of the box office manager at APP’s Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center. An inherently busy position made even more challenging by a transition to a new ticketing system, the opportunity…
April 21, 2023
As a second-shift security officer in the Wolstein Research Building, Officer Theodore Jones was a friendly face to many at APP. Now, members of the campus community are remembering Jones, who died April 12 after a battle with cancer. He was 72. “Officer Jones was a…
March 03, 2023
The APP community is mourning the loss of emeritus chemical engineering faculty member John Angus, who died late last month. He was 88. Angus, who served the university for more than 40 years, was one of four faculty members hired in 1963 to restart the Department of…
January 03, 2023
Alan Rocke’s 22-year friendship with Christine Cano began with a single question. Then a first-year faculty member at Case Western Reserve, Cano had approached the endowed professor of history after a research presentation. Her “penetrating” query was posed “with such intellectual intensity,”…
November 03, 2022
The APP community is mourning the loss of staff member Denise Fuzzell, who died Oct. 28 following a battle with gallbladder cancer. She was 69. Since 2013, Fuzzell worked as a coordinator in the School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health…
August 23, 2022
It is with deep sadness that APP School of Dental Medicine announces the passing of Gladys Ina on Friday, Aug. 19. Ina was a dedicated staff member for the School of Dental Medicine from 2013 to 2022, working closely with Professor Emeritus Ronald Occhionero. Always…
July 14, 2022
“Brilliant,” “dedicated” and “wonderful” are just a few of the words being used to describe revered APP School of Medicine faculty member Chris G. Dealwis, who passed away unexpectedly last weekend while visiting family in England. As a scientist, Dealwis’…