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Cathleen Clancy, M.D., co-chief of the Section of Injury Prevention and Toxicology and associate professor of emergency medicine, was quoted in a NPR's Shots post on common drugs that are dangerous for children.

Gerard Martin, M.D., professor of pediatrics, wrote a post for the blog ACC in Touch about physicians tackling public health funding for their congenital heart disease patients. 

Researchers announced today that scientists running genomic analyses at George Washington University’s Colonial One High Performance Computing Center will pilot ultra high-speed 40 Gigabit per second data transfers from the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM) using…

Neal Barnard, M.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine, wrote an op-ed for Medscape Neurology, disagreeing with a theory that carbohydrate and gluten consumption may cause or contribute to dementia. 

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, will serve as associate dean for international medicine.

Howard Straker, M.P.H., PA-C, and Paige McDonald, Ed.D., revised their course to be more interactive using a blended learning format.

Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, was featured in News-Medical for her recently published paper on the history of the burgeoning field of spirituality and health.

Scott Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, was published in Science Translational Medicine for his research finding that gene therapy can elicit a regenerative response in pig hearts.

Scott Shapiro, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, was featured by Science Daily for his research finding gene therapy may be a promising treatment for those who suffer from heart attack.

Richard Cytowic, M.D., associate clinical professor of neurology, wrote an article for Psychology Today on the "clean-up" that happens in the brain while sleeping.