Wayne State University School of Medicine

07/24/2025

Spread the word! Wayne Pediatrics, in partnership with Sanofi and Sky's Pancreas Partners, will present “How Do You Wear Your T1D?,” taking place Aug. 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Wayne State University Integrative Biosciences Center, located at 6135 Woodward Ave., in Detroit. The event is open to the public and will feature free screening for Type 1 Diabetes, available for children and adults, thanks to the T1Detect program launched in partnership with Breakthrough T1D and The Jewish Fund.

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Wayne Pediatrics, in partnership with Sanofi and Sky's Pancreas Partners, will present “How Do You Wear Your T1D?,” a dynamic community event aimed at raising awareness of Type 1 diabetes and ...

07/23/2025

Professor of Pediatrics Laura Benjamins, M.D., M.P.H., has been reappointed a member of the state of Michigans’s Committee on Juvenile Justice for a second term.

Dr. Benjamins is board-certified in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, and sees patients ages 9 to 26 years old at Wayne Pediatrics in Detroit. She provides primary and specialty care.

On the committee, she represents licensed individuals with experience in preventing and addressing mental health and substance abuse needs in delinquent youth and youth at risk of delinquency.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has reappointed a member of the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics to the state’s Committee on Juvenile Justice. Laura Benjamins...

07/21/2025

Dr. Bernard J. Costello, senior vice president for Health Affairs at Wayne State University, has been named to the Michigan Public Health Advisory Council. In this role, he will help the council develop plans, provide guidance on emerging public health issues, monitor response rates and promote a collaborative and unified approach to public health responses.

Read the announcement: https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2025/07/14/bernard-costello-md-dmd-appointed-to-state-public-health-advisory-council-66792

07/18/2025

Congratulations to everyone selected to present their scholarly work at the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians' 47th Michigan Family Medicine Research Day, including awardees, from left, Dr. Samar Haroun, who won first place for her oral presentation; and graduate student Maha Albujuq, who won second place for her poster presentation, joined here by department chair Dr. Jinping Xu and Dr. April Carcone.

Two trainees from the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences were recognized for their scholarly work at the 47th Michigan Family Medicine R...

07/17/2025

Shout out to Class of 2025 graduate Shirley ElFishawy, M.D., who landed her first lead-author credit for “Pathways from parental trauma exposure to Syrian and Iraqi refugee youth mental health symptoms: a multi-level mediation analysis,” published in the journal !

She is now a first-year Obstetrics and Gynecology resident at the Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.

https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2025/07/01/medical-student-led-project-shows-parental-trauma-impacts-young-generations-mental-health-66724

07/16/2025

On this , plans are accelerating to construct a new Health Sciences Research Building, a transformative $200 million project that will redefine how discovery, innovation, collaboration and community engagement drive health outcomes in Detroit and beyond.

https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2025/07/07/wayne-state-university-accelerates-vision-for-health-innovation-with-new-200m-health-sciences-research-building-66746

07/15/2025

Ashok Kumar, Ph.D., is co-principal investigator on the new study "Defining Ocular Monkey Pox Pathogenic Mechanisms," lauched to understand how mpox virus spreads and causes injury within skin and eye tissue, identify the genetic mutations that make newer strains of the virus more infectious and lethal and develop new classes of antiviral drugs to treat infection and stop viral transmission.

Researchers from the Wayne State University School of Medicine have received a $3.5 million grant, “Defining Ocular Monkey Pox Pathogenic Mechanisms,” from the National Eye Institute of the Nation...

07/14/2025

💚 💛 🥼 Here's a look at our Wayne State Class of 2029 by the numbers. Class is in session!

07/11/2025

Wear your white coats with commitment, compassion and humility, Class of 2029! What a beautiful day it was welcoming these 299 medical students to at our White Coat Ceremony, one of more than 170 held at medical schools annually for first-year students. You belong here!

07/10/2025

ONE MORE DAY until our Class of 2029 gets cloaked in the short white coat worn by medical students! Stream our Wayne State University School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony on July 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at https://wayne.edu/live

07/08/2025

With a national track record of academic and clinical innovation, Dr. Bernard J. Costello joined the university in early 2025 and is guiding Wayne State into a transformative future rooted in Detroit and powered by collaboration, compassion and community-driven discovery.

As Wayne State University charts a bold new course in health education, research and community care, Dr. Bernard J. Costello, senior vice president for Health Affairs, is at the helm. With a nationa...

07/07/2025

Following three days of orientation packed with hands-on activities like basic life support training and first aid, today is the first day of classes for our Class of 2029, which includes 299 new physicians-in-training at our Wayne State University School of Medicine! Learn all about the new class at https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2025/07/03/md-class-of-2029-begins-wayne-state-university-school-of-medicine-welcomes-299-new-medical-students-66741