Faculty in the Media

Michael Irwig, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, was featured in The Toronto Star for his extensive research on the negative effects of the drug Finasteride, also known as Propecia.
Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, spoke with the Arizona Daily Star about potential health hazards at home and how to keep children safe.
In an op-ed published in The Washington Times, Patricia Berg, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and her co-author Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and chief of staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Aging and…
Research by Yiju Teresa Liu, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine, and Kathleen Calabrese, M.D., adjunct instructor of emergency medicine, was recently featured by Medscape Medical News.
Paramjit Joshi, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was interviewed by ABC News on the monumental benefits of training teachers and others to help identify signs of mental illness in students, leading to earlier diagnosis. 
Ivor Horn, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, was quoted by Healthcare IT News from a presentation she gave on ways minority populations can benefit from health IT.
Mary Corcoran, Ph.D., associate dean of faculty development for health sciences, was interviewed by The Washington Post about techniques for communicating and meeting the emotional needs of those with cognitive impairment, such as dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
Henry Kaminski, M.D., professor of neurology, was interviewed by WUSA9 (CBS) on President Obama's new brain mapping initiative. 
Mandi Pratt-Chapman, associate director for the GW Cancer Institute Community Programs, spoke with CNN about the emergence of patient navigation programs as a result of the medical community's new emphasis on patient-centered care.
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, spoke with the American Journal of Medical Genetics about his latest research on autism an