News Archive

Karen Fratantoni, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by Today for an article discussing the threat of lead in manufactured baby food.

Daniel Yang, PhD, assistant research professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a Psych Central article about his research looking at effective interventions for adult autism.

Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine was highlighted in Health Day for a study she published about the long life and health spans of the centenarian population.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.