Announcements

Elizabeth Ruckert, DPT, NCS, GCS, assistant professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from Ithaca College this fall.

Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS, associate professor of medicine, was named as one of the first board-certified clinical informaticians in the country.

Professors Ferid Murad and Akos Vertes recognized for "outstanding inventions" by the National Academy of Inventors. Murad leads a lab program in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences' Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Emergency Health Services program is now taking applications for the spring 2014 semester for the bachelor’s degree in Emergency Health Services Management.

Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was elected to a director-at-large position on the American Academy of…

The Rodham Institute, named in honor of the late Ms. Dorothy E. Rodham, was the recipient of the Dr. Walter M. Booker Health Promotion Award, given out by The Association of Black Cardiologists, Sept. 28.

Rachel Brem, M.D., director of the Breast Imaging and Intervention Center, vice chair of radiology, and professor of radiology, was recognized by the Tigerlily Foundation and Living in Pink for her contributions to breast cancer care, advocacy, and research.

Leslie Bishop Tarver, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was selected for the Summer Medical Student Fellowship Program, supported by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Campaign for America’s Kids.

The Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences recently completed its reaccreditation process with the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) and will remain nationally accredited…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Joyce Maring, DPT, Ed.D., has been appointed as the chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences.