Laura Otto

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in partnership with the GW Hospital and the GW Medical Faculty Associates, participated in the 2014 NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo on Jan. 11 and 12.
Alexis Janda never pictured herself as a runner. “The word wasn’t part of my vocabulary,” she said. However, the word cancer sadly was. When Janda was 10 years old, her father, Michael, passed away from stomach lining cancer.
Elizabeth Prevou, a dual-degree, physician assistant and MPH candidate, brought her medical perspective to the inaugural D.C. public health case challenge.
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children's National hosted the 2nd Annual Mentor Development Conference, Nov. 20.
The Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program is now officially credentialed by the American Physical Therapy Association.
Stephen Bergman, M.D., Ph.D., psychiatrist and author of the landmark, best-selling medical novel, “The House of God," described his journey as a physician and writer and how those two worlds intertwined at the 8th Annual Stuart M. Fidler, M.D., Memorial, Nov. 6.
SMHS senior leadership discussed their personal and professional paths to becoming effective leaders during a luncheon Oct. 23.
Yolanda C. Oertel, M.D., RESD ’72, and her husband James E. Oertel, M.D., donated $2.5 million to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to establish The Yolanda and James Oertel Professorship for the Medical Humanities.
Victoria Mui, M.D., a PGY3 resident in the OBGYN program, received the 2013 Alpha Omega Alpha Postgraduate Award.
The Physician Assistant Class of 2015 received their short white coats during a ceremony on Oct. 4.