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During the Gold Humanism Honor Society Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care, students from SMHS could be found at GW Hospital writing posters about the importance of humanism in medical care and learning about patients’ interests.

Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology & physiology, was quoted in the Spectrum article about how the brains of women with autism compare to those of men.

Standing on the stage in GW's Jack Morton Auditorium on Feb. 7, Senators Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) debated the state of the U.S. health care system — with Cruz calling for total repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and Sanders making his case for a single-payer health system.…

 Stephen J. Teach, M.D., M.P.H., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s National Health System, talks about the relationship between allergies and asthma and the future in asthma care.

Elizabeth Tanzi, M.D., associate clinical professor of dermatology, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter for an article about pre-event facials and topical treatments.

Researchers at GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences investigate how to manipulate the genes of the schistosome parasite to disrupt its ability to survive and infect people. 

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, co-authored a commentary published in The Lancet Oncology, which calls to bridge the gap between the achievable and the accessible in cancer care.

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, Ph.D., associate center director for patient-centered care and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, wrote an article in Conquer Magazine about the consequences that repealing the Affordable Care Act would have on cancer patients.

Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, M.D., director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN) and Hudson Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational Science, and Robert H. Miller, Ph.D., co-director of the CTSI-CN and…

Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor in pharmacology & physiology, published research in the American Journal of Human Genetics about a newly discovered mutation in the INPP5K gene, which leads to short stature, muscle weakness, intellectual disability, and cataracts,…