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Jehan “Gigi” El-Bayoumi, MD, executive director of the George Washington University (GW) Rodham Institute, received the 2018 Lolo Sarnoff Founder’s Award presented by AFTA.

From the minute she started as an MD student at the George Washington University (GW), Cara Muñoz-Buchanan knew she wanted to help create an elective in criminal justice health. Just a few months ago that dream became a reality – in part thanks to the Lazarus Scholars in Health Care Delivery…

Roberta DeBiasi, MD, professor of pediatrics and of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, co-authored an article for STAT about acute flaccid myelitis, which causes sudden limb weakness and paralysis in children.

Cynthia Tracy, MD, professor of medicine, spoke to Hearst TV for a segment about pacemakers and the potential for hacking these devices. The segment aired on WRTV (Indianapolis, Indiana).

A leading provider of higher education research, BestColleges.com, this month awarded the George Washington University (GW) with a Schools of Distinction Award for Online Education Excellence.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and La Clinica del Pueblo have partnered to launch Project ECHO in Washington, D.C. to increase workforce capacity to provide best practice specialty care and reduce health disparities.

For Caitlin Davis, the pivot from economics to medicine materialized after years of working in health policy research and witnessing the difference an expert could make in the medical field.

Adam Friedman, MD, professor of dermatology, spoke to Time for an article about why skin is susceptible to acne in the winter and how it can be treated.

Patience White, MD, emeritus professor of medicine and of pediatrics at SMHS, served as lead author on a report providing guidance for clinicians on transitioning all youth and young adults from pediatric to adult health care.

Colin Young, PhD, received $2.4 million for his research on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.