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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. 

A new study by researchers at �ǿմ�ý 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.

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

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 �ǿմ�ý / 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, �ǿմ�ý 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 �ǿմ�ý 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…

Leadership Appointments: Office of Medical Education  The Office of Medical Education welcomes Rosa Hand, PhD, as its new Director of Research and Scholarship.

Tae Hun Kim, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, is the recipient of the prestigious Mallinckrodt Foundation Award for his research proposal—“Understanding the Recognition and Repair of DNA Single-Strand Breaks in the Nucleosome.” This annual grant, sponsored by the Mallinckrodt Foundation, supports early-career scientists…

Stan Gerson, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, presented the 2023 State of the School of Medicine on Dec. 6.

Four employees were honored with Staff Awards for 2023: Alberto Santana, Malana Bey, Jason Buitrago and Maria Rizk at the Staff Town Hall in November. These awards, the highest the school can award staff members, celebrate those who not only consistently contribute to the school in an outstanding manner but who show exemplary attitude and support…

�ǿմ�ý postdoctoral fellow Oladayo Oyebanji has earned the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s Yoshikawa and High award for an abstract he presented at the society’s IDWeek in October. The award honors work that focuses on solving healthcare epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship and infectious disease issues in…