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New Training Grant Finds Kellogg Eye Center Partnering With India’s Leading Eye Hospital

A new NIH-funded project supports partnership between Kellogg Eye Center and Aravind Eye Hospital to develop a clinical research training program.
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Finding Your Roots: Project Allows Physician to Bring His Passions Back Home

Technology finally caught up with Akbar Waljee's desire to conduct meaningful global health work in his native Kenya.
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Data Science collaboration to improve health in Kenya garners NIH funding

The University of Michigan is a collaborating partner in a $6.5 million NIH-funded project to establish East Africa's first data science hub, using cutting-edge tech to improve health and care delivery.
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Publication spotlights Global Executive Education program successes

A recently published paper details the design, implementation and impacts of a Global REACH-run healthcare leadership program for visitors from China.
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Medicine and the Media: COVID becomes focus of med student's CNN internship

Gina Yu expected her first day interning at CNN would be fairly relaxed – meeting colleagues, being shown around the office, setting up email passwords – akin to starting a new job in any big organization. It didn’t turn out that way.
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Rooney invited to join ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators

CSC leader Deborah Rooney recognized for her contributions as a surgeon educator
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‘We want to open doors’: Global Health Research Certificate Program graduates one cohort, recruiting the next

Nine multidisciplinary scholars recently became the latest to complete the Global Health Research Certificate Program.
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Academic Advocacy: Connections between U-M, Physicians for Human Rights are creating opportunities for learners

Michigan Medicine’s burgeoning relationship with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is creating new kinds of educational opportunities for medical students and residents.
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CSC Awards Honor Excellence in Simulation Education

2021 Educator of the Year, Innovator of the Year and Scholar of the Year were endorsed by the Clinical Simulation Center Steering Committee today.
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Edible Insects: Global REACH grant funds unique study to help feed expecting mothers

Researchers across disciplines look to palm weevil larvae as a source of nutrition in Liberian maternity waiting homes
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Fogarty project will pilot at-home blood pressure monitoring for pregnant women in Ghana

The very home-based technology that has been widely deployed in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic is being applied in an entirely new setting.
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Touch Free Check-In at the CSC

SimTRAC system pioneered during COVID lockdown tracks space utilization and CSC learners/users attendance
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After COVID delay, student begins Fogarty-funded research experience in Ghana

Ann Wolski is the first UMMS student in more than a year to travel on a global health experience
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AME Seminar Features Cooke and Rooney

On April 26th CSC leaders will present "The Simulation Center as a Hub for Innovations in Medical Education"
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Matching gift helps boost simulator fund

Thanks to all our donors for making the CSC's Giving BlueDay a Success