News Archive

The shuttle between Children’s National and The George Washington University runs Monday to Friday, on the following schedule.

The GW Cancer Center received nearly $100,000 to reduce cancer disparities in Washington, D.C.’s lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities from Susan G. Komen. 

The GW Institute for Neuroscience hosted the Sixth Annual Neuroscience Symposium, featuring presentations on new research.

The fourth-annual International Conference on Nutrition and Medicine, jointly sponsored by The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the nonprofit Physicians Committee, takes place at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, from July 29  to 30, 2016. 

The GW Cancer Institute, the patient-centered care and health equity arm of the newly established GW Cancer Center, was presented with a $100,000 check from The Avon Foundation for Women at the AVON 39 The Walk to End Breast Cancer closing ceremonies in Washington, D.C.

Emergency medicine residents visited Capitol Hill to hear panels on the Affordable Care Act, budget forecasting for legislation, and prescription opioid misuse.

Experts from GW, as well as the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland and the National Institutes of Health, presented on HIV/AIDS and cancer research at the inaugural Scientific Symposium on Viruses and Cancer.

Area clinicians joined GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) faculty, alumni, and residents to hear Edward “Ted” Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D., present a pair of keynote addresses during the third annual Harry C. Miller Visiting Professorship Symposium and Awards Luncheon, March 19, 2016.…

Congratulations to Marcia Firmani, Ph.D., director of the Program in Medical Laboratory Sciences and assistant professor of clinical research and leadership at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who received a 2016 Bender Teaching Award.

Three GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing publications recently received several honors, including gold and an honorable mention, in the 2016 Hermes Creative Awards.