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Wayne Olan, M.D., assistant clinical professor of Radiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, appears in a segment discussing a new treatment for brain aneurysms.

Katherine Chretien, M.D., associate professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, wrote a column in USA Today about breastfeeding in America and how it should be more widely accepted by states and the American public, because it provides health benefits to both mother…

In many ways, patient navigation has gotten ahead of itself. The relatively modern profession has grown so widely and rapidly that patient navigators now vary in education, skill set, role, responsibility, and even name.

John Sargent M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, vice chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, went through residency training three times.  

Rajeev Pandarinath, M.D., assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was quoted in a Seattle Times article about potential injuries that can result from Zumba which may be embarrassing for patients.

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and Director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify molecular mechanisms that define…

Jonathan Reiner, M.D., professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The George Washington University Hospital is interviewed by a Connecticut NPR affiliate about new legislation that provides Good Samaritan…

A lot of things seem to walk away from Katalin Roth’s office, which, she admits, is “due for a clean.” But a simple greeting card isn’t one of them. She locates it swiftly, plucks it off the bulletin board, and reads it aloud.

Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, is quoted in an article regarding the role that spirituality can play in a patient's health and recovery.

A school of public health seems an unlikely home for a chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization promoting sustainable engineering projects in developing countries. But for Sarah Diamond, a second-year M.P.H. candidate in the Milken Institute for Public Health (formerly the GW…