Announcements

A team of faculty members from SMHS has been selected to participate in the 2019 Millennium Conference on Self Directed Learning: Training Doctors for a Lifetime of Discovery.

For more than 70 years, the James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine has been presented by the ACP for contributions in preventative medicine. In 2019, GW's Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, MD ’85, MSPH, joined the list of award winners.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences made the list of top-ranked schools in the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate School Rankings for 2020.

Congratulations to Maranda Ward, EdD '17, MPH, on being named among the 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum for 2019.

Faculty and residents from the SMHS Department of Dermatology will present at the American Academy of Dermatology Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., March 1–5.

All of George Washington University’s campuses and education centers will be on a delayed opening for 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 21.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences will have a presence at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting, Feb. 14–17 in Washington, D.C.

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences has named David Mendelowitz, PhD, professor of pharmacology and physiology and anesthesiology and critical care, to serve as the interim chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology.

[Updated: February 10; 11 p.m.] GW will open at 9:30 a.m.

"A Modern Contagion" by Amir Afkhami, MD, Phd, discusses how outbreaks of cholera have influenced the development of modern Iran.