Announcements

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.
Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D.,  professor of medicine and pharmacology and physiology, was elected as chair of the Hypertension and Microcirculation Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. 
The International Medicine Programs at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is co-sponsoring a three-day scientific summit with Khon Kaen University in Thailand. 
Jeffrey Berger, M.D., associate dean for graduate medical education and associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, co-edited the review book, Anesthesiology Core Review: Part Two Advanced Exam.
Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competitive opportunity that fosters innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
Patience White, M.A., M.D., co-director of Got Transition and emeritus professor of medicine and of pediatrics, co-led the American College of Physicians Pediatric to Adult Care Transitions Initiative, a project which created guidelines and tools for pediatric-to-adult health care transitions.
The shuttle between Children’s National and The George Washington University runs Monday to Friday, on the following schedule.
Congratulations to Marcia Firmani, Ph.D., director of the Program in Medical Laboratory Sciences and assistant professor of clinical research and leadership at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who received a 2016 Bender Teaching Award.