Announcements
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.
Three GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing publications recently received several honors, including gold and an honorable mention, in the 2016 Hermes Creative Awards.
Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was a co-recipient of the American Heart Associations’ 2015 Excellence Award in Hypertension Research.
Joyce Maring, Ed.D., D.P.T., P.T., program director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences, and associate professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, joins an elite group of 31 academic women leaders in the fields…
Recently there has been significant news coverage about the Zika Virus, which is spread to people through mosquito bites.
Physician assistant students and an alumna from the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) talked to two dozen students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia about career pathways toward becoming a PA.
Anton N. Sidawy, M.D., M.P.H. ’99, Lewis B. Saltz Chair of the Department of Surgery and professor of surgery, was appointed by the American College of Surgeons to its Board of Regents.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to support Upward Bound and the Health Education Leadership Program at the Rodham Institute.