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Amir Afkhami, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and clinician at the GW Medical Faculty Associates, commented on a new study from the U.S. Army Public Health Command that suggests the rate of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers has soared.
Peter R. Holbrook, MD, was honored earlier this week by colleagues and many of the families for whom he cared throughout his career in recognition of 37 years of leadership at Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Holbrook is leaving the position of Chief Medical Officer at Children's National…
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.