Announcements
Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, received a $15,000 Tier I Pipeline to Proposal Award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
The GW Cancer Center recently released two new no-cost tools to help comprehensive cancer control professionals enhance their communication efforts and improve care for cancer survivors across the U.S. The resources, produced as part of the GW Cancer Center’s ongoing technical assistance…
Lisa Mustone Alexander, professor of physician assistant studies, and Howard Straker, assistant professor of physician assistant studies and of prevention and community health, were elected to leadership positions of the Physician Assistant Education Association. Both Alexander and…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently won four new awards, bringing its 2016 total to seven.
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Jianqing Lin, M.D., associate professor of medicine and physician in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Harold Frazier, II, M.D., FACS, professor of urology, have been tapped to co-lead GW Cancer Center's newly established Genitourinary…
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.