Alumni News
For the first time in its 65-year history, George Washington University’s (GW) Alpha Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (AΩA) announced that this year’s AΩA graduation-week events, the annual AΩA grand rounds lecture and the awards banquet, were “unavoidably canceled,” due to
Researchers are working feverishly to discover effective treatments for COVID-19. One drug showing early promise is remdesivir, which is being studied with the help of GW alumnus Richard Whitley, MD ’71, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) launched a GW COVID-19 Response Fund to support the academic and clinical mission of SMHS during this global health crisis.
COVID-19 didn't deter students from the excitement of the day. When the clock hit noon they gathered with family and friends around computer monitors and across D.C. and the country for a virtual reveal of their residency match.
Today, as Barbara L. Bass, MD, RESD '86, begins her first day at GW serving as the new Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean of the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Chief Executive Officer of the GW Medical Faculty Associates (GW MFA), the GW community…
GW's online bachelor's degree programs were ranked among the top 20 programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
Alumnus Joshua Barocas, MD '10, received the Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship Award to support a project to advance health equity.
Jeffrey S. Akman, MD ’81, RESD ’85, vice president for health affairs, Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine, and dean of SMHS, delivered the annual State of the School address during Reunion Weekend on Sept. 14, offering attendees an overview of the progress that has been made…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences inducted members of the MD Class of 1969 into the H Street Society during MD Reunion Weekend.
Dipping one’s toes into social mediacan at times seem daunting, but it can also be incredibly helpful and rewarding, said Hope Jackson, MD ’09, RESD ’16, assistant professor of surgery at SMHS, at the Annual Frank Miller Lecture.