News Archive

Paramjit Joshi, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was interviewed by ABC News on the monumental benefits of training teachers and others to help identify signs of mental illness in students, leading to earlier diagnosis. 

Ivor Horn, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, was quoted by Healthcare IT News from a presentation she gave on ways minority populations can benefit from health IT.

Friends of the George Washington (GW) University gathered at the Jack Morton Auditorium for a discussion about women’s heart health led by a panel of experts from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA).

In the first comprehensive review of its kind, Katherine Chretien, M.D., associate professor of medicine, and Terry Kind, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, have co-authored a piece in Circulation on the challenges and opportunities of using social media in a clinical care setting…

Mary Corcoran, Ph.D., associate dean of faculty development for health sciences, was interviewed by The Washington Post about techniques for communicating and meeting the emotional needs of those with cognitive impairment, such as dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

Henry Kaminski, M.D., professor of neurology, was interviewed by WUSA9 (CBS) on President Obama's new brain mapping initiative. 

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, associate director for the GW Cancer Institute Community Programs, spoke with CNN about the emergence of patient navigation programs as a result of the medical community's new emphasis on patient-centered care.

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, spoke with the American Journal of Medical Genetics about his latest research on autism an

Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was invited to speak on the role of vaccines in control of schistosomiasis at an international meeting of leading experts, jointly held by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and…

Roberta DiBiasi, M.D., professor of pediatrics, spoke with PBS Newshour about cuts made by the federal government to medical research funding.