Alumni News

May 29, 2017
The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) celebrated one of its own, New York State Commissioner of Health Howard Alan Zucker, MD ’82, LLM, on May 18 at the 62nd Annual Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (AΩA) Awards and Induction Banquet.
May 22, 2017
The 80th meeting of the Kane King Dodek Obstetrical Society, held May 17, was filled with excitement, yet also a tone of remembrance. 
May 16, 2017
“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 vote of confidence in me that I received that scholarship. I actually thought about that quite a…
March 16, 2017
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 16, 2017
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.
March 16, 2017
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 difficult path,” she says, “but knowing that my hard work and…
March 16, 2017
The GW Medical Faculty Associates congratulates members of the active medical staff named Top Doctors 2016 in Washingtonian Magazine!
March 16, 2017
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 16, 2017
I was thrilled and honored to be chosen for this scholarship, but also to see that a physician in the community so strongly values my nursing background. I would like to send my endless gratitude to [Barnett] and his family for this generous gift, and to assure him that I will always remember my…
March 14, 2017
Burnout among physicians, residents, and medical students is a growing issue, but according to Lotte N. Dyrbye, M.D., M.H.P.E., professor of medicine and of medical education at Mayo Clinic, there are things clinicians can do to achieve better well-being.