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The George Washington University Cancer Institute received the 2013 Association of Community Cancer Centers’ Innovator Award. The Institute, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was recognized as a top 10 cancer program in developing and pioneering solutions to address…
Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., associate director of the GW Cancer Institute, was featured in an Oncology Times article after presenting at the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) Oncology Cancer Conference.
Amir Afkhami, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was included in an article in The Atlantic Wire for his comments on an article in The New York Times about what hospitals have learned from natural disasters, such as Hurricane Sandy and Katrina.…
Marion Usher, Ph.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, wrote an op-ed for The Jewish Week, repsonding to the results of the PEW 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews.
J. David Miller, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, wrote a letter to the editor in response to The New York Times article, "Data-Mining Our Dreams.”
Roberta DeBiasi, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a WTOP story on whether the D.C. School District acted appropriately after a pneumococcal meningitis death, which is caused by bacteria.
Leslie Bishop Tarver, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was selected for the Summer Medical Student Fellowship Program, supported by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Campaign for America’s…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences installed Dean Jeffrey S. Akman, M.D. '81, RESD '85, as the Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine.
Jonathan Reiner, M.D., professor of medicine, was a guest on Piers Morgan on CNN to discuss his care and treatment of former Vice President Dick Cheney during his long battle with heart disease.
Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, was recently published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine for his paper, “Non-Emergency Department (ED) Interventions to Reduce ED Utilization: A Systematic…