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At a moment when the global COVID-19 pandemic is finally loosening its grip on the public consciousness as an object of existential dread, a new fear has swept in to supplant it: nuclear annihilation. Assistant Professor Amir Afkhami, MD, from the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,…
Washington, D.C., leaders and representatives from Universal Health Services, the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), and GW Medical Faculty Associates (GW MFA), cut the ribbon on a new Cedar Hill Urgent Care Center, part of the broader $403 million project that…
Second-Year Medical Student Cecilia Velarde De La Via discusses the health care experience for members of the Hispanic community and the significance of Hispanic Heritage Month to her.
Two D.C.-area facilities are recruiting volunteers to test the efficacy of different doses of a monkeypox vaccine with the hope that they can stretch available supplies.
The National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, and George Washington University, in D.C., are among eight locations…
The opinion piece written by Leigh A. Frame discusses passing new legislation requiring providers to incorporate nutritional education into healthcare.
GW Professor Dr. David Diemert talks about the MonkeyPox Vaccine trial at GW.
The George Washington University (GW) Primary Care program launched a lifestyle medicine track, training residents to help patients make key behavioral changes that can reverse the effects of chronic disease.
Researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences received a pair of grants totaling more than $816,000 from Gilead Science, Inc., in support of an 18-month research informed educational initiative, Two in One: HIV+COVID Screening and Testing Model, to study pairing routinize HIV…
The George Washington University will direct more than $50 million to fund 14 endowed professorships, further accelerating the progress of its academic medical enterprise in one of the most significant single investments in university history to support faculty.
Carmen Session, MSEd, case manager for the Health Careers Opportunity Program, and senior associate for student programs with SMHS’s Office of Student Support, shares some insights into her role at GW and who she is outside of work hours.