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First-year MD, PT, and PA students volunteered with the Special Olympics Young Athletes program for Community Service Day.

In mid-September, the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) started a tradition: the Stuart S. Kassan, MD ’72, Lecture Series.

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Leading up to his first year of medical school at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), David Agdashian, now a second-year MD student, had the opportunity to work at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

SMHS welcomed the MD Class of 2022 at the White Coat and Honor Code Ceremony.

Lexis Deshazor-Burnett, a rising junior at North Carolina A&T State University, credits the George Washington University (GW) Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer (GW-SPARC) with opening her eyes to the myriad research paths she could follow.

Before SMHS welcomed the incoming MD Class of 2022 during the White Coat Ceremony, first-year medical students, their alumni parents, and family members gathered for the annual SMHS Legacy Brunch.

To improve health equity and health care access and to bring research and technology to Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C., GW Hospital signed a letter of intent to oversee the opening of a new hospital and health complex in Southeast D.C.

Juliet Lee, MD, MA ’17, joined the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program to take the next step in gaining new skills and instruction in education and leadership. The year-long program was developed in 2002 as a partnership between GSEHD and SMHS.

Robert H. Miller, PhD, a neuroscientist, researcher, and administrator in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named the university’s new vice president for research.