Announcements
A $500,000 grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation has been awarded to a team of researchers, led by Alejandro Villagra, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to further…
Robert Kaiser, M.D., associate professor of medicine, published a paper in The Gerontologist on the challenges faced by caregivers of aging parents, drawing upon his own experiences.
John Larsen, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and former chair of the department, received the 2016 Hellman Midwifery Partnership Award.
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, M.D., director of the GW Cancer Center, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). Sotomayor will start a three-year term on October 23 during the AACI Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Sally A. Moody, Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology and professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, was elected to a two-year term as vice president of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.
Henry Kaminski, M.D. chair of the Department of Neurology and Meta Amalia Neumann Professor, was published as co-author of a New England Journal of Medicine study finding surgery removing the thymus is an effective treatment for myasthenia gravis.
Together, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The GW Medical Faculty Associates, and the GW University Hospital, continue to accomplish profound achievements by working together.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Walter Harris, M.B. A., P.M.P., is joining the school's senior leadership team and will serve as the senior associate dean for administration and operations.
Ian Toma, M.D., MSHS ’04, Ph.D.‘11, associate research professor of clinical research and leadership and medicine, was selected as a Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to facilitate bioinformatics and genomics education and to conduct a research project in Moldova.
Robert Kaiser, M.D., associate professor of medicine, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Home Care Medicine.