TEDxNEOMED: Kevin Dieter Wishes You a Bas Sona
Feb. 22, 2022
When Kevin Dieter, M.D. (’85) wishes you a bas sona – a blessed death, in Old Irish – it makes sense if you realize that hospice and palliative care have [...] 
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Student Op-Ed: Stop Medicare Privatization
Feb. 21, 2022
Two College of Medicine students took a stand on Medicare privatization – and they got it published. Wednesday, Feb. 16, Cleveland.com posted an Op-Ed titled “Biden’s Costly Failure to Stop [...]
Giving Health Care Professionals Tools for Resilience
Feb. 15, 2022
Burnout is real for health care workers – and that’s why funding through the federal American Rescue Plan is being used to promote mental health in the workplace. In a [...]
Poetry and Broken-Heart Syndrome
Feb. 15, 2022
Valentine’s Day may have turned thoughts to poetry, but ideas from interventional cardiologist Ankur Kalra, M.D., offer a new perspective. Dr. Kalra, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of [...]
The Blood Brain Barrier and Alzheimer’s
Feb. 10, 2022
The onset of diabetes, hypertension or obesity in middle age constitute some of the biggest risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s at age 65 and older. New funding from Templeton Research [...]
Ezekiel Emanuel on COVID-19 and the Latest Recommendations
Feb. 8, 2022
How is our nation doing with the COVID-19 pandemic? In her role as guest moderator for NEOMED’s VITALS series Thursday, Feb. 3, Betty Lin-Fisher, a medical reporter for the Akron [...]
Ezekiel Emanuel on Innovation in COVID-19 and Health Care
Feb. 6, 2022
We’ll never entirely eradicate COVID-19. So, we need to re-orient ourselves to how we can live with it by building precautions and safeguards – ventilation systems, for example – into [...]
Spotlight on NEOMED’s Research Focus Area: Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
Feb. 5, 2022
Jessica Ferrell, Ph.D., is part of NEOMED’s most recently formed Research Focus Area, which studies diabetes, obesity and metabolism – and how these conditions impact our health. Diabetes, obesity, fatty [...]
Funding Strategic Initiatives: Journal of Medical Sciences at NEOMED
Feb. 5, 2022
The Journal of Medical Sciences at NEOMED (JMS) was founded in 2020 by Trinity Samson, M.D./Ph.D. student, and Fayez Safadi, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and neurobiology, with the goal of [...]
Telling the Story of NEOMED’s Underrepresented Students
Feb. 5, 2022
How does a student’s story impact a higher education institution? This is the question the team producing a documentary focused on underrepresented students in medicine (URM) at NEOMED is hoping [...]