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Jehan El-Bayoumi, M.D., associate professor of medicine, issued a statement in The New York Times that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton developed a stomach virus and fainted due to extreme dehydration. She also sustained a concussion. This statement was also covered in Reuters, the Associated…

SMHS is pleased to announce that Joseph Bocchino, Ed.D., MBA, has been named Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences.

New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL…

For the third year in a row, Tracy and her team of cardiologists from the GW Heart & Vascular Institute traveled to the city of Comayagua, Honduras to bring specialized cardiac care to people in need.

It was an unseasonably cold late-October afternoon, with Hurricane Sandy churning up the East Coast. Ominous skies threatened to unleash a downpour at any moment, but that didn’t keep the 13 members of the Challenger team off the baseball diamond at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Va.

Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, professor of medicine, was featured in the Independent for her work in bringing spirituality to the healthcare system.

Michael Compton, M.D., M.P.H., professor and director of research initiatives in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor of prevention and community health at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Crisis…

Aiming to promote mentorship and its importance to the academic community, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National Medical Center (CTSI-CN), in collaboration with the George Washington University, hosted “Building the Next Generation of Academic Leaders: A Mentor…

Jonathan Reiner, M.D., professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will author a memoir with Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States, about Cheney's 35-year battle with heart disease.

Scott Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, was interviewed by Epoch Times on the dangers or risks of energy drinks, especially for children.