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Fourth-year medical student and kidney donor Jacob Lambdin honors mentor J. Keith Melancon, MD, by requesting the renowned transplant surgeon hood him at graduation.

Eighty thousand people streamed through the Walter E. Washington Convention Center March 10 and 11 to take part in the annual two-day NBC4-Telemundo44 Health Expo.

Jaclyn Kline, MD, research instructor of pediatrics, spoke to Reader's Digest for an article about signs that upper abdominal pain could actually be an emergency.

Fred M. Gordin, MD, professor of medicine and senior scientist of clinical and population sciences at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research, passed away at age 66 after a four-year battle with lung cancer. 

Daniel Yang, PhD, assistant research professor of pediatrics, spoke to Education Week in an article about his research on autism that provided early evidence of how supports for students' social skills may change parts of the brain associated with challenges in those areas due to autism.

Daniel Yang, PhD, assistant research professor of pediatrics, published in Autism Research finding that a clinician-driven virtual learning platform, tailored to young adults on the autism spectrum, shows improved social competency.

Vanessa Torres-Llenza, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SMHS, is committed herself to strengthening mental health care in Puerto Rico.

Liliane Willens had lived a life unmoored before; as a child, she and her family experienced World War II as stateless citizens in Shanghai. Decades later, after immigrating to the United States and earning her PhD, Willens found herself lost again – this time cast adrift by a disease

Nathaniel DeNicola, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, spoke to Kaiser Health News about the OB Nest program at Mayo Clinic.

Sabyasachi Sen, MD, associate professor of medicine, spoke to U.S. News & World Report for an article about new research that suggests low-calorie artificial sweeteners could predispose individuals to diabetes. This research was also covered by The Conversation and Daily Mail.