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The role of youth in their health and the health of their communities was the theme of the 4th Annual Rodham Institute Summit. Community leaders, clinicians and students presenting at the day-long event emphasized how to engage and lift up young people living in underserved areas.
Participants in the multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health BELIEVE grant gather in Washington, D.C. for their first meeting.
Research by Sutas Suttiprapa, Ph.D., Paul Brindley, Ph.D., and others in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine found a modified form of the HIV-1 virus can integrate into the genome of the parasitic flatworm that causes the disease schistosomiasis. The research…
Every October, the nation celebrates Physician Assistants (PA) Week. To mark the annual celebration, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) hosts an awards reception to honor individuals for their dedication to the profession.
The long-term effects of childhood immunization can be a controversial subject in almost any setting. Recently, a panel of experts speaking as part of a George Washington University and ICF International forum sought to unravel issues surrounding the practice.
At the 11th Annual Stuart M. Fidler, M.D., Memorial Lecture series, surgeon and New York Times columnist Pauline W. Chen, M.D., spoke about Mary Amanda Dixon Jones, a leading surgeon in the late 1880s and the first in the United States to perform a successful hysterectomy.
Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Clinical Partners are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Jianqing Lin, M.D., associate professor of medicine and physician in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Harold Frazier, II, M.D., FACS, professor of urology, have been tapped to co-lead GW Cancer Center's newly established Genitourinary…
Reamer L. Bushardt, Pharm.D., PA-C, DFAAPA, tenured professor and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's School of Medicine, was named senior associate dean for health sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.