Announcements

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.
Adam Friedman, M.D., FAAD, associate professor and residency program director in the Department of Dermatology, was selected as a Fellow Ambassador for The New York Academy of Medicine.
Congratulations to the 150+ GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty members who were recognized as Washingtonian “Top Doctors.”
Renowned GW SMHS faculty member and leader in pediatric surgery, Judson G. Randolph, MD, passed away on May 17, 2015 in Nashville, TN at the age of 87.
Ashkan Monfared, M.D., associate professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and his colleagues from Global ENT Outreach, El Centro de los Sentidos and Clinica de Marly, hosted their first ever, two-day Advanced Otology and Temporal Bone Course in mid-April…
Congratulations to the GW SMHS faculty members on their promotions.