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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.
Students at SMHS recently received sage advice from LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH, director of the D.C. Department of Health: Use your experience with patients to develop responsible solutions to public health problems.
To ensure all members of the SMHS community understand their rights around gender equality and sexual harassment, the SMHS Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosted a “Lunch and Learn” session on Title IX.
Dayna Bowen Matthew discussed the impact of implicit racial and ethnic bias on health equity at the second annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture.
In 2016, more than 42,249 deaths were attributed to opioid use, according to the CDC. In mid-February, physician assistant (PA) students at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences heard from a panel of experts about the role they can play to combat the epidemic.
A new lecture series from the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Institute (ANDI) at the George Washington University (GW) aims to connect researchers, faculty members, and students from across the university whose fields of expertise are relevant to the study of autism.