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Rana Damra
Case Western Reserve University
Rana Damra is a second-year Masters of Speech-Language Pathology Student at Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include adult cognitive-communication disorders and swallowing disorders.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Engagement Plan for Increasing Representation in Biomedical Research: A Community Collaboration Between Case Western Reserve University Health Science Graduate Students, Cleveland Clinic BioRepository, and the Fairfax Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio
Background: Enhancing diverse participation in research and specimen collection, especially in historically underrepresented populations, is essential to attaining personalized medicine. The Cleveland Clinic BioRepository (CC-BioR) opened in October 2021 in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, where >90% of residents are Black. Leveraging this new opportunity to increase diverse engagement in research, 7 health professional students from Case Western Reserve University (Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Social Work, Speech-Language Pathology) collaborated with Cleveland Clinic’s Research Access…