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Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founding director of the GW Institute of Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was quoted in an article published in The Dallas Morning News about a doctor who prays with his patients and the growing integration of spirituality into medicine…

WBAL Radio reported that Michael Barr, M.D., M.B.A., assistant clinical professor of medicine, has been appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to serve on the Maryland Health Care Commission, along with GW School of Public Health and Health Services alumni Frances Phillips.

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.