Announcements

Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., has been named the interim associate dean for graduate medical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Matthew L. Mintz, M.D. ‘94, FACP, associate professor of medicine, was named the interim assistant dean for M.D. program curriculum for the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Farzad Najam, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been named Division Director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the GW Hospital.
The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, will serve as associate dean for international medicine.
Gerald Lazarus, M.D. ‘63, member of the GW Board of Trustees and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was selected by the American Skin Association to receive the 2014 David Martin Carter Mentor Award.
Seth Rosenblatt, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a regional coordinator for the American Academy of Family Physicians National Family Medicine Interest Group Network.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences received a grant from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to fund its program, “Training Faculty to be Mentors in Humanism: A Faculty Development Program to Nurture Students’ Inner Growth.”
Roger Mitchell, M.D., RESD ’06, was recently appointed the District’s new Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Vincent C. Gray.
Gerald Lazarus, M.D. ‘63, member of the GW board of trustees and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, has recently written a review on wound care treatments.
Braving single digit wind chill temperatures, faculty and students from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Physician Assistant Program arrived bright and early to volunteer at Arlington National Cemetery Jan. 26.