“There’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about being a health care student. There is very low tolerance for mistakes, there’s high expectations, and it felt like someone really stepped up and made a...
Giving News
March 20, 2017 - 2:39pm
Philanthropy has myriad motivations; there are as many reasons to give as there are causes in need of support. For Roger J. and Susan Gendron, the reasons are simple: first, their son Theodore is a recent graduate of the George Washington...
March 17, 2017 - 11:56am
Marcus Mitchell, clad in green scrubs and his GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences white coat, has only a short break after finishing his rounds at GW Hospital to talk about the meandering path he’s taken in medicine.
March 17, 2017 - 11:30am
Upon graduating from medical school, young physicians frequently begin their careers burdened by significant debt. To address this issue, GW’s Adopt-a-Doc program was established in 2010 to offer alumni and friends the opportunity to support a...
March 17, 2017 - 11:24am
Recognizing that Washington, D.C. has the highest state-level breast cancer mortality rate in the country, you have enabled us to provide funding for the George Washington University Breast Care Center’s mobile mammography unit — the Mammovan....
March 17, 2017 - 11:11am
The GW Medical Faculty Associates congratulates members of the active medical staff named Top Doctors 2016 in Washingtonian Magazine!
March 17, 2017 - 11:02am
Thanks to the Cecile and Seymour Alpert, MD, Medical School Scholarship, Dalya was able to heed that calling and make her dream of becoming a physician a reality.
Embarking on the journey to become a physician was a long and...
March 17, 2017 - 11:01am
On the cover page of the immunology textbook Victoria Shanmugam used in medical school was a quotation that resonated with the young Londoner: “Immunology is the invention of the devil, who is making it up as he goes along because he is not too...
March 17, 2017 - 11:00am
When I started medical school here four years ago, never in my wildest dreams would I have expected a complete stranger to be so generous as to donate a scholarship award to help me fund my education. To all the...
March 17, 2017 - 10:54am
In 2013, Danette Cunningham, 47, was driving her car when she unexpectedly blacked out and crashed. She had no idea what happened, and didn’t drive for four months. After replacing her car, Danette blacked out again while driving. After the crash...