News Archive

Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was awarded a $747,000 federal grant to research the causes of severe intellectual disability and autism.

Amir Afkhami, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and global health, has been named as a 2013–2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow.

Gerard Gioia, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and pediatrics, was quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about treating children who have received concussions while playing sports. 

James Scott, M.D., former dean and professor of emergency medicine, and Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., professor of pediatrics and Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the Milken Institute of Public Health (formerly the GW School of Public Health and Health Services), played key roles…

The fifth annual GWish Spirituality and Health Summer Institute brings psychosocial and spiritual well-being into focus.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the establishment of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation.

Health Care Quality master's student Jessica Osborne-Stafsnes authored the commentary "Shared Decision Making: Using Federal Health Policy as a Lever to Support Implementation,” which was recently published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine.

Gary Little, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine, was interviewed by The Associated Press about an uptick of heat related visits to the emergency room, due to the heat wave this week. Little was also featured by WNEW-FM and KUIK Radio (Portland, Ore.) about the heat wave.

Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was featured in The Hays Daily News for his 2010 article finding that top medical schools do not produce many students who 1) practice in an underserved area, 2) practice a primary care specialty, and 3) are members of an underrepresented minority…

Jehan El-Bayoumi, M.D., associate professor of medicine, was interviewed by ABC7 about exercising in the extreme heat. Dr. El-Bayoumi advises bikers and runners to avoid exercising in the middle of the day during the heat wave.