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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…

Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D.,  professor of medicine and pharmacology and physiology, was elected as chair of the Hypertension and Microcirculation Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. 

The International Medicine Programs at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is co-sponsoring a three-day scientific summit with Khon Kaen University in Thailand. 

Jeffrey Berger, M.D., associate dean for graduate medical education and associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, co-edited the review book, Anesthesiology Core Review: Part Two Advanced Exam.

Lawrence "Bopper" Deyton, M.D. ’85, MSPH, senior associate dean for clinical public health, as well as several medical students, were interviewed for a story on NPR's Morning Edition about the M.D. Program's curriculum focused on teaching health policy, as well as basic science and medicine…

Ferid Murad, M.D, Ph.D., university professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and Ka Bian, M.D, Ph.D., M.B.A., associate research professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, published a paper in The FASEB Journal finding a potential new "wonder drug" for illnesses such as…

Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competitive opportunity that fosters innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

GW physicians discuss travel strategies for avoiding illnesses, like the Zika virus and malaria, at the June Frontiers in Medicine lecture.

Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen, M.D., returned to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to serve as the Ninth Annual AΩA Visiting Professor May 12.