Announcements

Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, was selected as a SMHS Emerging Scholars Fellow for 2020-21. The scholarly focus for her project is health equity and anti-racism.

As part of an ongoing pursuit to improve the academic experience for faculty and students, the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce two new strategic developments — a consolidated Office of Student Support that will serve as a school-wide…

Fourth-year MD student Sowmya Mangipudi was first author of a correspondence published in The Lancet Global Health assessing the availability of oxygen in sub-Saharan African countries.

Guido Pelaez, MD student at SMHS, will have a chance to build on his passion for research after being chosen for the American Society of Hematology 2020 Minority Medical Student Award Program.

COVID-19 and treatment innovation headline AAKP & GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Annual Global Summit.

Monica Lypson, MD, professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was recently elected to the council of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

Terry Kind, MD, MPH, associate dean of clinical education and professor of pediatrics at SMHS, was recently selected as a member of the Inaugural Cohort of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics.

A review recently published in JAMA Network Open suggests that environmental exposures like air pollution and heat are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth.

A recent survey published in AJOB Empirical Bioethics suggests that a physician's behavior on social media may have an impact on patient trust.

Congratulations to Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, FACRM, FAOTA, for receiving the 2020 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Early Career Outstanding Mentor Award.