News Archive

Marshall Summar, MD, director of the Rare Disease Institute and professor of pediatrics, was interviewed for the NPR podcast, TechNation, about treating rare diseases in children.

John Hawdon, PhD, associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, spoke to Popular Science for an article about weather hazards and dangerous parasites to consider in the different regions of the United States.

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, director of the GW Cancer Center, published research looking at the development of resistance to Ibrutinib, a drug used to treat patients suffering with mantle cell lymphoma. 

The SMHS Physical Therapy program, after an extensive review process, received the maximum accreditation length from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education.

Kris Lehnhardt, MD, medical director of EMeRG and assistant professor of emergency medicine, was quoted by the Daily Mail in an article about the importance understanding human reproduction in space.

The senior associate dean for clinical public health was honored in a ceremony June 5.

David Diemert, MD, associate professor, and Jeffrey Bethony, PHD, professor, both in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, received a $3 million UOI grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the efficacy of a candidate recombinant hookworm vaccine.…

Shawn Shea, MD, presented his theory at the 23rd Annual Seymour Perlin, M.D., Lecture on Suicidology in May.

Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences published research in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, about the long health and life spans of centenarian veterans.

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, co-authored an article for Conquer about developing a plan for patients in the posttreatment phase of survivorship.