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Congratulations to the four distinguished members of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) who earned awards from the American College of Physicians this year!

Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Genomics and Precision Medicine, spoke to Wired for an article about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' memo on defining a person's sex under Title IX.

Daniela Drago, PhD, RAC, director of the Regulatory Affairs Programs and associate professor of clinical research and leadership at SMHS, was recognized this month as a The Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA) Fellow.

Roberta DeBiasi, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke with Axios for an article about acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like illness that has left some children with partial paralysis or muscle weakness.

Assisted by second-year PT students, members of the SMHS Physical Therapy Class of 2021 slipped their arms into the sleeves of their new white coats during the PT Convocation and White Coat ceremony.

The study published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests the thalamus controls the development of state dependency and continuity.

GW and the FDA published an update to the BioCompute Object Specification Project, which provides much-needed standards for communicating high-throughput sequencing computations and data analysis, known as BioCompute Objects.

As large scissors cut into a white ribbon adorned with the logo of the Governor’s Health Sciences Academy at T.C. Williams, cheers echoed across the auditorium from those gathered to celebrating the official launch of the program.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of only two sites chosen for the first clinical trial of a HIV vaccine candidate.

Lisa Alexander, EdD '03, MPH '89, PA-C '79, professor of physician assistant studies, addressed opioid use disorder at the symposium, titled “Expanding Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Provider Perspectives on Reducing Barriers to Evidence-Based Care.” Her comments were reported by…