Announcements

Faculty at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) will take part in the American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) 2019 Annual Meeting in November in Atlanta.
A new development series aimed at furthering health equity education for educators and health care providers was launched earlier this month by the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Clinical Research and Leadership.
Dominic Raj, MD, director of the Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension at SMHS, received the award from the American Association of Kidney Patients.
Homa Ahmadzia, MD, has received a K23 grant for her research investigating postpartum hemorrhage and ways of minimizing it.
The editorial team of JAAPA, including Reamer L. Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA, senior associate dean for health sciences, Harrison Reed, MMSc, PA-C, assistant professor of physician assistant studies, and Teri L. Capshaw, MBA, communications and editorial director for health sciences, was…
The George Washington University has sold a portion of its royalty rights to sales of a drug originally developed at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The GW is pleased to announce that the GW Biorepository is now a core facility. Housed at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the GW Biorepository received designation as a shared resource available to all GW investigators and is accredited by the College of American Pathologists.
A research team led by Yanfen Hu, PhD, is studying the role of the tumor suppressor BRCA1 in the homologous recombination pathway of DNA double-strand break repair.
Steven Davis, MD, was recognized as the 2019 National Clerkship Director of the Year at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
A new study published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine has found that the SMHS Clinical and Translational Research Scholarly Concentration is effective in training physician-researchers.