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Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), says the goal of his department’s Nobel Laureate lecture series “is to bring the best people in the world to Washington, D.C.,…

In the popular media, emergency departments (ED) are usually associated with long wait times and uninsured patients.

Dr. Matthew Mintz, associate professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinician at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed on CBS Evening News about the need for primary care physicians and the fact that the federal government awarded $9.1 million to…

Dr. Gary Simon, Walter G. Ross Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and vice-chair of the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed by the…

Second year medical student, Annie Mooser, penned an article for the organization, Primary Care Progress, which is a growing network of primary health care clinicians, trainees, and students engaging their local primary health care communities to promote primary care and transform care delivery…

GW faculty members from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinicians at the Medical Faculty Associates, including Dr. Cynthia Tracy and Dr. Marco Mercador, traveled to Honduras during fall 2011 to provide medical care to people living in a medically underserved village.

Robert Wooten, P.A.-C., president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, often tells fellow physician assistants (P.A.) that they are leaders. And just as often, they deny it.

Dr. Michael S. Irwig, assistant professor of Medicine, Dr. Anton Trinidad, associate professor of Psychiatry, and Matthew St. Peter, a fourth year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-authored an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine titled, “Self-Castration…

Dr. Mehul J. Desai, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and of Neurosurgery in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinician at the Medical Faculty Associates, commented in an article about the prevalence of back injury while people are shoveling snow…

Nobel laureates Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., Ph.D., and Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., had a number of lessons to offer George Washington University students earlier this week.