Faculty in the Media

Dr. Matthew Mintz, associate professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinician at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed on CBS Evening News about the need for primary care physicians and the fact that the federal government awarded $9.1 million to medical…

Dr. Gary Simon, Walter G. Ross Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and vice-chair of the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed by the…

Second year medical student, Annie Mooser, penned an article for the organization, Primary Care Progress, which is a growing network of primary health care clinicians, trainees, and students engaging their local primary health care communities to promote primary care and transform care delivery and…

GW faculty members from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinicians at the Medical Faculty Associates, including Dr. Cynthia Tracy and Dr. Marco Mercador, traveled to Honduras during fall 2011 to provide medical care to people living in a medically underserved village.

Dr. Mehul J. Desai, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and of Neurosurgery in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinician at the Medical Faculty Associates, commented in an article about the prevalence of back injury while people are shoveling snow.

Dr. Cynthia Tracy, professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and clinician at the Medical Faculty Associates, discusses the surgery she and her colleagues performed to repair a hole in a 36-year old Honduran woman's heart at GW Hospital.

Jesse Pines, M.D., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-authored an article about concierge medicine versus patient-centered medical homes which debated the benefits of enhanced patient access to care.

Michael Olding, M.D., professor of Surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is quoted in an article about whether it's the nose job itself or the patient's new outlook on life that makes him or her appear younger.

Amir Afkhami, M.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is quoted in an article about the link between certain antidepressants for pregnant mothers and pulmonary hypertension in infants.

Jordan Cohen, M.D., professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is quoted in an article about the money that the chairman of the orthopedics department University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Heath is receiving from Medtronic, a medical device…