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GW’s Office of International Medicine Programs hosts volunteer anesthesiologists with Operation Smile for hands-on Medicon training and expert-led workshops.
GW Hospital’s stroke team is among the nation’s leaders in acute care.
As a budding neuroscientist, Kevin Pelphrey intended to study how the human brain understands other humans—knowledge for knowledge’s sake, as he described it. And it was mostly so he could play with scanners and analyze “cool-looking” pictures of the brain.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences hosted its first Student Debt Symposium, designed to raise awareness and promote solutions to health education debt.
The role of youth in their health and the health of their communities was the theme of the 4th Annual Rodham Institute Summit. Community leaders, clinicians and students presenting at the day-long event emphasized how to engage and lift up young people living in underserved areas.
Participants in the multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health BELIEVE grant gather in Washington, D.C. for their first meeting.
Every October, the nation celebrates Physician Assistants (PA) Week. To mark the annual celebration, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) hosts an awards reception to honor individuals for their dedication to the profession.
The long-term effects of childhood immunization can be a controversial subject in almost any setting. Recently, a panel of experts speaking as part of a George Washington University and ICF International forum sought to unravel issues surrounding the practice.
At the 11th Annual Stuart M. Fidler, M.D., Memorial Lecture series, surgeon and New York Times columnist Pauline W. Chen, M.D., spoke about Mary Amanda Dixon Jones, a leading surgeon in the late 1880s and the first in the United States to perform a successful hysterectomy.
