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The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has established a new Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research. The new Center will absorb the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation and Urgent Matters, expanding its reach across GW.

The GW Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. GWish is a recognized leader in building the global movement to create more compassionate health care systems.

Researchers from GW have received a $28 million grant from the NIH to lead an 18-site collaboration, named “BELIEVE,” to find a cure for HIV.

Jesse Pines, M.D., M.B.A., director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research (CHIPR), as well as other GW CHIPR researchers, created a conceptual model for episodes of acute, unscheduled care. The model, published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, will help researchers,…

The GW Cancer Center has joined with nearly 1,000 local and national organizations to support the 80% by 2018 initiative, led by the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable. The 80% by 2018 initiative represents a…

Ravi Thadhani, M.D., M.P.H., discussed research and potential treatment options at the annual Irene Tamagna Lecture on Hypertension.

The annual Health Sciences Showcase highlighted departmental and IMPACT initiative endeavors through creative video presentations.

On Wednesday, June 22, the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences received the formal report from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) conveying that the medical education program leading to the M.D. degree will continue with full accreditation for…

First-year physician assistant (PA) students donned their white coats for the first time, with help from second-year PA students, at the PA Short White Coat and Convocation Ceremony, held Friday, June 26.

Researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science received $1.6 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study a heart-brain connection that could help the nearly 23 million people suffering from heart failure…