News Archive
Everybody knew H. George Mandel, Ph.D., a faculty member in The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Department of Pharmacology and Physiology for over 60 years.
A GW study about the cost of obesity titled “A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of Being Overweight and Obese in the United States,” revealing the high costs of obesity to individuals in the United States, was mentioned in a SmartMoney article about food offered at state and county fairs.
Dr. Amir Afkhami, assistant professor of Global Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services, commented on a story about Legionnaires' Disease found in the Aria Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Dr. Jeffrey Levi, professor of Health Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services, commented in a story about a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation stating that Americans have gotten increasingly fatter over the last 20 years.
Dr. Scott Kahan, professorial lecturer in the School of Public Health and Health Services, commented that national exercise programs that are promoted and have exposure in the District, like Michelle Obama's "Lets Move!" program, helps to keep DC adults fitter.
It was Mary Kaldas’ first trip to the Boston area and Zach Wegermann’s second. The city, they said, was “awesome,” but sightseeing wasn’t their first priority.
SMHS announced today that Henry J. Kaminski, M.D., will be joining the faculty as the Meta Amalia Neumann Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology in September 2011.
The Department of Emergency Medicine of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is hosting the DC area’s first EMT-Basic Clinical Summer Program aimed at high school and first/second year college students interested in a healthcare delivery career.
Dr. James L. Griffith, professor and interim chair of Psychiatry and Neurology and director of the Psychiatry Residency Program at SMHS, was awarded the Creative Scholarship Award by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) at their annual meeting, June 2 – 4.
Dr. Charles Samenow, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published an op-ed on hypersexual disorder.