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The Rodham Institute and BlackDoctor.org hosted a summit on increasing diversity in the health professions and promoting health equity.

Kofi Essel, MD '11, MPH '17, assistant professor of pediatrics, spoke to Today Online for an article about obesity and teaching physicians to have empathy for their patients.

Two studies published by Andrew Meltzer, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at SMHS, focus on improving physicians’ abilities to perform rapid diagnostics for patients in the emergency department.

James Griffith, MD, Leon M. Yochelson Chair and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, spoke to The Washington Post for an article on panic attacks. The story was also covered by SFGate.

C. William Schwab, the founding chief of Penn Medicine’s Trauma Center, was chosen as the first speaker for the inaugural Rosemary and David Bowes Lecture on Trauma and Critical Care.

Researchers from the GW Institute for Neuroscience published a new study in Neuron, which provides the first evidence showing that individual nerve cells fail to make the right number of connections. The reason for this deficit is limited growth of key nerve cells in the cerebral cortex during…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has launched a nutrition concentration for students enrolled in the Master of Science in Health Sciences in Integrative Medicine.

Malika Fair, MD, MPH, was recognized as one of the 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum.

Students at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) are leading the way when it comes to medical school curriculum improvement as it pertains to race and culture.

Using the mobile app Babyscripts reduced in-person prenatal care visits while maintaining patient and provider satisfaction, according to research published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth by physician researchers from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.