Stay Home When You’re Sick
March 19, 2020
It’s time to pay people to self-quarantine. That’s the premise put forth by Erik Messamore, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, on the KevinMD blog. People going to work sick […]
Category: Community Health
The Great Hand Sanitizer Debate
March 17, 2020
If you’ve paid the store a visit lately, you may have noticed empty shelves where bottles of hand sanitizer and Lysol wipes once lived. But does hand sanitizer kill coronavirus? […]
Experiencing the Patient’s Humanity: Varun Gopinath
March 13, 2020
Varun Gopinath contributed the following reflection on his experience working with underserved populations as a second-year College of Medicine student in the Northeast Ohio Medical University-Cleveland State University Partnership for […]
Ensuring Learning, Teaching and Working Continuity for the NEOMED Community
March 11, 2020
On March 9, 2020, Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) announced that three Ohioans tested positive for COVID-19. Gov. DeWine also declared a state of emergency […]
Turns Out, Obesity Is Not a Moral Issue
March 5, 2020
Too fat, too thin, not muscular enough, too masculine. It’s impossible to avoid the barrage of messages about body image – often negative, frequently contradictory, sometimes dangerous – that come […]
Wasson Center Seeks Standardized Patients of All Ages
March 5, 2020
College student, working professional, retiree — it doesn’t matter, Northeast Ohio Medical University’s Wasson Center for Clinical Skills Training, Assessment, and Scholarship would like your help. The Wasson Center is seeking […]
Coronavirus Q&As from Infectious Disease Expert
March 3, 2020
Thomas File Jr. M.D., a clinical faculty member who is the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, spoke recently to the Akron Beacon Journal to answer questions about […]
NEOMED Professor Comments on the Coronavirus
Feb. 7, 2020
As cases of novel coronavirus continue to be rise, it begs the question — is the coronavirus a pandemic? Richard Watkins, M.D., a Northeast Ohio Medical University associate professor of […]
Coronavirus In the News and the Classroom
Jan. 24, 2020
An outbreak of a new virus causing respiratory illness began recently in China and continues to expand, with a confirmed case in the U.S. Called 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019 nCoV), […]
The Public Health Connection: Terri Robinson
Jan. 17, 2020
If you’ve ever met Terri Robinson, Ph.D. — whether it was in a hospital lab, classroom or tucked away in a library — chances are, her passion for public health […]