Alumni News
Lara Oboler, M.D. ’95, member of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was awarded the 2014 Alumni Outstanding Service Award, April 3.
In the 46 years since Class of ’68 graduated, members have given more than $1 million to SMHS.
Congratulations to Jim Scott, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and former dean of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who received the 2013 Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine.
Stuart Kassan, M.D. ‘72, member of the George Washington University (GW) board of trustees and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was named a ‘Distinguished Clinical Professor of Medicine’ at the University of Colorado (CU) Denver School of Medicine.
The GW Hatchet covered new technologies and a revised M.D. curriculum slated for fall 2014. The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences will distribute iPads to its about 180-student first-year class, investing in a tool that is becoming more prevalent for doctors around the country.
Elizabeth Ruckert, DPT, NCS, GCS, assistant professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from Ithaca College this fall.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of James L. Griffith, M.D., as the Leon M. Yochelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
The George Washington University is pleased to announce the establishment of the Rodham Institute for Healthcare Provider Education to Eliminate Disparities. The Institute, which is housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is named in honor of the late Mrs. Dorothy E. Rodham…
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.
Within most successful researchers there lies a stubborn streak; a flicker of perseverance that lights the way past personal and professional setbacks en route to the next big idea. So it was for Jean L.