Announcements

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences renamed the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology to the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.

D. Robert Dufour, MD, received the 2018 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, clinical professor of surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received the 2018 Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons in appreciation of his accomplishments.

Terry Kind, MD, MPH, assistant dean for clinical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was named editor for the In the Moment section of Academic Pediatrics.

Rising fourth-year medical student Steven Langerman was selected for the Medical Research Scholars Program at the National Institutes of Health. 

Sharad Goyal was recently selected to be a member of the NRG Oncology Developmental Therapeutics Radiation Therapy Subcommittee where he will spend the next two years working with members of the committee and the National Institutes of Health to bring new drugs to clinical trials.

Nephrology fellows at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences who presented research and received awards at the National Kidney Foundation Fellows Research Forum on June 6.

Robert Jablonover, MD, assistant professor of medicine, was named assistant dean for pre-clinical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Sharad Goyal, MD, professor of radiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, serves as co-author/editor of “Precision Radiation Oncology,” a book demystifying new technologies and methods in the field of radiation oncology.

Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Charles and Sonia Akman Professor of Global Psychiatry at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.