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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to support Upward Bound and the Health Education Leadership Program at the Rodham Institute. 

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Health Affairs, finding the most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to…

SMHS physician assistant (PA) students go to Capitol Hill to garner support for PA legislation during PA Hill Day.

Stuart Kassan, M.D. '72 received the Paulding Phelps Award at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., and Mary Ottolini, M.D., M.P.H. for their outstanding contributions to graduate medical education. 

James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., discussed the impact of a positive learning environment on childhood development during the 13th annual Jerry M. Wiener, M.D., Lecture.

Mark S. Zocchi, MPH, senior research associate at the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, was published in the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety for his evaluation of 42 U.S. hospitals to improve emergency department flow. 

Three publications produced in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently received high honors, including platinum and gold prizes, in the 2015 MarCom Awards.

Sir Michael Marmot discussed empowerment as a powerful factor for eliminating health inequity.

Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…