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Kanishka Ratnayaka, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was featured in the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, for his work at the Ugandan Health Institute this week training physicians and performing surgeries.

Babak Sarani, M.D., chief of trauma and associate professor of surgery, was interviewed by WTOP about how weather effects the emergency room and how hospitals prepare for inclement weather.

Scott Faucett, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, is a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams.

Seth Rosenblatt, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a regional coordinator for the American Academy of Family Physicians National Family Medicine Interest Group Network.

Before coming to GW, obstetrician Amr Madkour, M.D., volunteered in West Africa with Doctors Without Borders.

Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was featured prominently in La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain) on the importance of focusing on healing as more than the absence of disease.

The George Washington University Cancer Institute was featured on the cover of this month's Oncology Issues for a paper on how the Institute prepared to meet new standards from the American College of Surgeon's Commission on Cancer by catalyzing patient-centered care.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Nancy Gaba, M.D.’93, RESD ’97, FACOG, a longtime leader at GW, will serve as the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

George Washington University faculty and students, including Leana Wen, M.D., director for patient-centered care research, took the stage at Lisner Auditorium to speak to a crowd of 1,200 attendees representing GW, D.C. and the surrounding areas, at TEDxFoggyBottom on Friday.

Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a Medscape Medical News article on research finding that giving children with acute asthma flare-ups one or two doses of dexamethasone in the emergency department provides equivalent relief to a five-day course of prednisone while…