Announcements

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Reamer Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA and GW School of Nursing Dean Pamela Jeffries, PhD, RN participated in the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, April 17–18.   
A new position paper by lead author Philip J. Candilis, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SMHS, examines principles that should guide the health care profession’s response to physician impairment.
Jeffrey S. Akman, MD ’81, RESD ’85, vice president for health affairs, Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine, and dean of the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was one of three recipients of the 43rd Annual George Washington Award…
Congrats to the MD program awards winners in the Class of 2019 
First-year MD student Rehema Thomas was accepted into the American Society of Radiation Oncology’s Minority Summer Fellowship.
Walter Jean, MD, published "Skull Base Surgery: Strategies" to show residents and medical students how neurosurgeons think.
MD student Simone Bernstein has been recognized in her hometown of St. Louis as one of the 2019 St. Louis Women of Achievement.
The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists has awarded accreditation to the GW Biorepository based on results of a recent on-site inspection as part of the CAP’s Accreditation Programs.
 Aileen Chang, MD, MSPH, will deliver a pitch during CureAccelerator Live! for the Developing World.
Two studies published by Andrew Meltzer, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at SMHS, focus on improving physicians’ abilities to perform rapid diagnostics for patients in the emergency department.