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When Neville came to Washington, D.C. as a junior faculty member at Georgetown University in 1990, he noticed that he was seeing a lot of patients with hypertension, high cholesterol, and renal failure — and even more with gangrene due to diabetes.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR, is revolutionizing heart repair procedures in the way bypass and stents have done decades before.

Terry Kind, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, was named assistant dean for clinical education for the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences congratulates this year’s Emerging Scholars grant recipients. The Emerging Scholars program, housed within the Health Sciences Programs, provides pilot grant money to health sciences faculty and staff to support scholarly projects with a clear role…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences awarded half a million dollars in scholarships to four third-year medical students interested in pursuing a career in primary care.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has acquired a state-of-the-art birthing simulator to teach students how to care for mother and child during delivery and how to address complications.

The GW Cancer Institute received a $97K grant from Genentech to address health disparities in cancer care.

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, spoke to NBC News about new research showing that even siblings with autism often have very different DNA mutations from one another — strengthening evidence that autism is often just genetic bad luck.

Adopting a vegetarian diet causes weight loss, even in the absence of exercise or calorie counting, according to a new meta-analysis published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and authored by Neal Barnard, M.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine.

For Sheila Pinette, D.O., PA ’83, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the path leading to Maine’s highest public health office was a fast-paced and challenging journey – and one that began at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Science…