News Archive

Ameet Singh, MD, co-authored a study that details the successful trial of a frontal sinus impant that allows anti-inflammatory drugs into the frontal sinus tissue of patients with chronic sinusitis. The research was published in JAMA Otolaryngology – Health & Neck Surgery.

Reamer L. Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA, senior associate dean for health sciences, spoke to WJLA-ABC7 for a segment about the health sciences education partnership between GW SMHS and Alexandria City Public Schools. This story was also covered by Northern Virginia Magazine.

The theme of this year’s Rodham Institute Summit was “Building and Strengthening Resilience in Our Community.” The summit’s message was reflected by keynote speaker Hillary Rodham Clinton, former senator and secretary of state. 

Leo Chalupa, PhD, vice president for research and professor of pharmacology and physiology, authored an op-ed for The Hill discussing the status of neuroscience in the U.S. and how it can progress.

Neuroscientists from SMHS, the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and the Milken Institute School of Public Health will participate at Neuroscience 2017.

Fourth-year GW SMHS medical student Sojung Yi’s deep interest in global health has taken her to various places around the world, including a year of global health work made possible by the GW Lazarus Scholars in Health Care Delivery program.

Jesse Pines, MD, director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research and professor of emergency medicine and of health policy and management, spoke to Associated Press for an article discussing the effects of some health insurers trying to curb unnecessary emergency room visits…

James L. Griffith, MD, chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Leon M. Yochelson Professor of Psychiatry at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association.

Over 100 faculty members at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences were recognized by Washingtonian Magazine as 2017 Top Doctors.

Adam Friedman, MD, associate professor of dermatology, spoke to TIME for an article discussing the effects of stress on the skin.