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SMHS revitalizes the DC Health and Academic Pre Program to aid local high school students interested in pursuing health careers.

Daniel Lewin, Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, spoke to The Associated Press about the consequences of not getting enough sleep for teens.

Major General Nadja West, M.D. ’88, has a clear memory of her first day at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS).

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.