Announcements

Yolanda Haywood, MD, RESD ’87, BA ’81, associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and student affairs and associate professor of emergency medicine, at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a $1.2 million grant for the Upward Bound program for which she is the principal investigator…
Alison K. Hall, PhD, is the new associate dean for research workforce development at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 
Karen Lewis, PhD, director of administration of the Standardized Patient Program and the CLASS Center at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences was awarded the ASPE Outstanding Educator of the Year Award.
In January 2017, the Society of Government Service Urologists awarded Harold Frazier, MD, professor of urology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Outstanding Service Award.
GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Rea Childs will serve the school as HR director.
Mathilde "Matty" Knight, PhD, adjunct professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences was on the research team that found a genome in the Biomphalaria snail that may explain why the snail is a prime transmitter for the parasite, Schistosoma…
Katherine Chretien, M.D., assistant dean for student affairs, and associate professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was elected to the executive board of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs.
Karen A. Wright, PhD, PA-C, was named assistant dean for student life and academic support of health sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Wright is an assistant professor and interim chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies and the PA program director.
Jennifer Bires, LICSW, OSW-C, program coordinator of patient support services at the GW Cancer Center, was named the 2017 AOSW Oncology Social Worker of the Year.
Ali Rosenberg, graduate student at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, was named 2017 Graduate Student Employee of the Year for her work in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at SMHS.