News Archive

Eliot Sorel, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, talked to Aljazeera America about where the United States comes short in providing mental health care.

Urgent Matters, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, announces the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a newly created competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that Vincent Chiappinelli, Ph.D., has been named as the associate vice president for health affairs and associate dean of the SMHS.

Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a $1,973,645 grant from the National Eye Institute to study developmental origins of wakefulness in the cerebral cortex, the region…

Fitzhugh Mullan, Ph.D., M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by Medpage Today about proposed solutions to the shortage of primary care physicians. 

Rachel Moon, M.D., professor of pediatrics, spoke to The Boston Globe about new advice physicians are giving to parents to improve their child's sleep.

W. Scott Schroth, M.D., associate dean for administration and associate professor of medicine, was asked by Medpage Today about the pros/cons of shortening medical school to three years.

Gerard Gioia, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was mentioned in The Associated Press as a member of the new USA Football 10-member medical committee to make football safer for youth players. This Announcements also appeared in The Sacramento Bee.

Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by The Washington Post on using music or other techniques to distract young children from painful medical procedures. This story also appeared in The Chicago Tribune and The Norman Transcript.

Jeremy Brown, M.D., clinical professor of emergency medicine, wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post examining Judaism and modern science. He is the author of the recently published book, "New Heavens and a New Earth; The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought."