Announcements

Jennifer Lee, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine, was recently appointed Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.

Lara Oboler, M.D. ’95, member of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was awarded the 2014 Alumni Outstanding Service Award, April 3.

Jacqueline S. Barnett, M.S., assistant professor of physician assistant studies, and Ellen F. Goldman, M.B.A., Ed.D., associate professor of clinical research and leadership and human and organizational learning, and director of the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program, were selected as…

Lorenzo Norris, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been appointed to serve as an interim assistant dean for student affairs at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., has been named the interim associate dean for graduate medical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Matthew L. Mintz, M.D. ‘94, FACP, associate professor of medicine, was named the interim assistant dean for M.D. program curriculum for the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Farzad Najam, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been named Division Director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the GW Hospital.

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, will serve as associate dean for international medicine.

Gerald Lazarus, M.D. ‘63, member of the GW Board of Trustees and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was selected by the American Skin Association to receive the 2014 David Martin Carter Mentor Award.

Seth Rosenblatt, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a regional coordinator for the American Academy of Family Physicians National Family Medicine Interest Group Network.