News Archive

Alumni Weekend 2014 brought nearly 130 alumni and their spouses back to Foggy Bottom to celebrate their class reunions.

The PA Program celebrated PA Week, Oct. 6-12 with its inaugural reception honoring the work and accomplishments of PAs.

Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and scientific director of the Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, published a perspective in Science, calling for researchers to adapt new technologies to research parasitic flatworms.

The 9th Annual Stuart M. Fidler Memorial Lecture focused on the humanistic aspects of medical care.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” is pleased to host the Fourth International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease in Rome, Oct. 23-25.

Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are pleased to announce the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

On Sept. 24-25, Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor of pharmacology and physiology, organized a meeting of myasthenia gravis experts from across the globe at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Nancy Gaba, MD '93, RESD '97, FACOG, was formally installed as the Oscar I. and Mildred S. Dodek and Joan B. and Oscar I. Dodek Jr. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology on Oct. 8.

Epilepsy.com, the largest website worldwide dedicated to epilepsy and seizures, will begin hosting Epilepsy Grand Rounds, a monthly seminar series by the GW Epilepsy Center.

Neal Sikka, M.D., director of the Section of Innovative Practice and associate professor of emergency medicine, helped launch the app HerStory, which provides a platform for women affected by breast cancer and mastectomy to share their stories and give emotional support to other patients.