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George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences third-year MD students met with Washington, D.C., community members in June as part of the Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity.

GW Hospital is at the forefront of performing transradial cardiac catheterization, a specialized non-surgical procedure for seriously ill cardiac patients, with almost 80 percent of STEMIs done transradially.

In Toaff’s annual event, Brighten Someone’s Day, medical students deliver handmade cards, balloons, and flowers to patients at the George Washington University Hospital.

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, addressed faculty and students in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership about the importance of eliminating measures that do not add value, in order to improve health care quality.

GW orthopaedic residents and faculty members presented on cases, new research, and projects at John P. Adams Research Day on June 15, followed by a discussion from guest speaker Paul Sponseller, MD, chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Reflection, the act of serious thought or consideration, was the theme of the day June 14 as members of the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program Cohort 15 gathered to celebrate their graduation from the program.

The SMHS Physical Therapy program, after an extensive review process, received the maximum accreditation length from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education.

The senior associate dean for clinical public health was honored in a ceremony June 5.

Shawn Shea, MD, presented his theory at the 23rd Annual Seymour Perlin, M.D., Lecture on Suicidology in May.

How to protect your skin, what products to use to do so, and the ways in which people can reduce signs of aging were featured topics at the most recent Frontiers in Medicine lecture.