Announcements

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. 

Stuart Kassan, M.D. '72 received the Paulding Phelps Award at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., and Mary Ottolini, M.D., M.P.H. for their outstanding contributions to graduate medical education. 

Three publications produced in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently received high honors, including platinum and gold prizes, in the 2015 MarCom Awards.

Congratulations to Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., director of the GW Cancer Institute, who was chosen as a Young World Cancer Leader (under 40) by the Union for International Cancer Control. 

Doctors at the GW Cancer Center were nationally recognized for their cancer care in Newsweek’s Top Cancer Doctors 2015.