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Jeffrey S. Akman, M.D. ’81, RESD ’85, vice president for health affairs, Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine, and dean, and several key members of his senior staff, discussed the latest developments in SMHS at the dean’s annual State of the School Address.
Two GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) alumni, André J. Nahmias, M.D. ’57, M.P.H., and Lieutenant General Nadja Y. West, M.D. ’88, received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award during this year's Alumni Reunion Weekend.
Students and regulatory experts from around the world gathered for four days on the GW camps for the first international annual summer institute, "Issues & Trends in Regulatory Science."
GW alumnus Adam P. Buckley, M.D. ’96, presented on the innovative changes he’s made to the University of Vermont Health Network’s electronic medical records system at the 8th Annual Allan B. Weingold Lecture.
Words of advice, praise, and encouragement were offered up at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Physical Therapy (PT) Convocation to help first-year students reflect on the journey ahead.
Induction into the H Street Society, named to commemorate the location of the former GW medical school, is held during alumni weekend and allows members of the class celebrating their 50th reunion to share stories about their time at GW.
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.