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Richard Elion, MD, clinical professor of medicine, was quoted by Windy City Times in an article discussing Howard Brown Health's 2017 Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium, where Elion delivered the kickoff speech.

Allen Dyer, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, spoke to WYPR-FM (Baltimore) for a segment about the Goldwater Rule.

Funding is vital to biomedical research, but finding funding opportunities and applying for them often feels more daunting than the science itself, especially for new investigators. Now, a new offering from SMHS is making that process easier than ever.

Children’s National Health System will receive more than $550,000 in funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to lead a three-year, multi-center trial that will study a low intensity, chemotherapy-free transplantation approach to cure patients with sickle cell disease using a…

The main gym at Catholic University of America on Sept. 29 was a cacophony of laughter and chatter as health care professionals and students provided health services and education for young Special Olympics athletes.

Interprofessional education has quickly risen to the top of the alphabet soup of medical acronyms, and at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, students, including those with the Office of International Medicine Programs, are taking advantage of enrichment opportunities.

The National Institutes of Health is embarking on a phase II trial of a DNA-based Zika vaccine, with the goal of enrolling almost 2,500 participants at sites, including one in Brazil run by GW faculty, spread across countries where the virus has infected people.

As displaced refugees from Middle Eastern nations and parts of Africa make their way through the hills of Turkey and across the Aegean Sea to Greece, their needs – food, shelter, clothing – are basic but essential. Equally important to their survival is psychological well-being. 

To give students at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences the ability to enrich their medical education overseas without adding to the debt they accrue during school, the GW International Medicine Programs provides myriad scholarship opportunities.

Kevin Pelphrey, PhD, director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, Carbonell Family Professor in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and professor of pharmacology and physiology and of pediatrics, spoke to Spectrum for an article discussing neurofeedback as a treatment…