Faculty in the Media
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was featured prominently in La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain) on the importance of focusing on healing as more than the absence of disease.
Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a Medscape Medical News article on research finding that giving children with acute asthma flare-ups one or two doses of dexamethasone in the emergency department provides equivalent relief to a five-day course of prednisone while reducing…
Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by ABC7 on parents being distracted by mobile devices leading to the ineffective supervision of children.
Lee Ann Beers, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was quoted in The Washington Post article on Phillip Seymour Hoffman's heroin overdose and how to talk to children about substance abuse.
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, was quoted by Spanish and Columbian media on the success of the Spanish health care program La Caixa, which focuses on spirituality and medicine in their care of the sick and dying.
Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, was featured in Medical Daily for his research finding a “potentially novel therapeutic target” to reduce the rate of deterioration and to promote growth of brain cells damaged by multiple sclerosis (MS).
Medical Residents Katie Byrd, M.D., and Grant Barry, M.D., were featured on FOX 5 News for saving a man suffering from a heart attack outside the GW Hospital. Byrd and Barry saw the man as they were coming back from lunch.
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine and director of patient-centered care research, wrote a letter-to-the-editor in response to The New York Times article, "We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer."
Vinayak Jha, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, was a guest on Aljazeera America's America Tonight to discuss CVS's decision to stop selling tobacco in its stores. Jha also appeared on NBC4 and was quoted by Politico.
Babak Sarani, M.D., chief of trauma and associate professor of surgery, was quoted in the Washington Business Journal's BizBeat article on the GW Hospital being re-verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center.