Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and instructor of emergency medicine, talked to WTOP-FM about teaching patients how to better advocate for their health and her book, recently released in paperback, “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Testing.” Wen was also interviewed by Health, Wealth & Wisdom Radio in Tampa, Florida, and was featured in BioPortfolio and Phys.org.
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Alison Hall, PhD, senior associate dean for research at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), recently assumed the added role of interim director of the GW Cancer Center following the departure of Julie Bauman, MD. In this Q+A she discusses future plans for the GW Cancer Center.
Abigail Polter, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology, recently received a grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative to study a small, but integral part of the mid-brain, called the ventral tegmental area responsible for executive function that she…
Pedro Gazzinelli Guimarães, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently named among the “New Voices in Microbiology” by the journal Infection and Immunity.
