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For many in the lecture hall during the Marilyn Koering Award ceremony, Marilyn Koering, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a devoted teacher, research scientist, mentor, and patient advocate, was an inspiration.

Cultural identity and the understanding of one’s self play into how the brain processes information and in how violence is motivated by one’s identity, topics discussed at the GW Department of Psychiatry’s most recent Grand Rounds.

Students from the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) had the audience in stitches at Follies, an annual event that features dances and skits performed by students.

SMHS medical students present their work during the second day of Research Days.

Fourth-year medical students pursued projects of choice for their final Clinical Public Health Summit and presented their results to their third-year classmates.

Fourth-year medical student and kidney donor Jacob Lambdin honors mentor J. Keith Melancon, MD, by requesting the renowned transplant surgeon hood him at graduation.

Eighty thousand people streamed through the Walter E. Washington Convention Center March 10 and 11 to take part in the annual two-day NBC4-Telemundo44 Health Expo.

Vanessa Torres-Llenza, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SMHS, is committed herself to strengthening mental health care in Puerto Rico.

Excited. Nervous. Hopeful. A little overwhelmed. That’s how Diana Lee described her emotions on March 16 as the clock slowly ticked toward noon, when medical students across the country discovered where their residency training would begin.

Laura Doggett, founder and creative director of the documentary project, received the SMHS Daniel S. Prager Award for Opening the Human Spirit.