Announcements

William Borden, MD, associate professor of medicine and health policy, published commentary in the journal JAMA Cardiology calling for more accessible outcomes data for patients. 

Emily Balog, a Translational Health Sciences PhD student, received the Pat Tillman Foundation Scholarship, which provides academic support for military service members and their spouses.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has joined more than 35 organizations to form the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Crisis.

Harold A. Frazier II, MD, has been tapped to serve as interim associate dean for graduate medical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce Jeffrey Berger, MD, MBA as interim chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Michael I. Bukrinsky, MD, PhD, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine.

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.