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George Washington University faculty and students, including Leana Wen, M.D., director for patient-centered care research, took the stage at Lisner Auditorium to speak to a crowd of 1,200 attendees representing GW, D.C. and the surrounding areas, at TEDxFoggyBottom on Friday.
Darrell Kirch, M.D, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, addressed the effects of political dysfunction on academic medicine during his Jan. 16 psychiatry grand rounds lecture.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in partnership with the GW Hospital and the GW Medical Faculty Associates, participated in the 2014 NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo on Jan. 11 and 12.
Shawneequa Callier, J.D., M.A., discusses the benefits and dangers of home health genetic testing.
Beginning in fall 2014, each first-year GW medical student will also receive an iPad—a tool that is commonplace in today’s hospitals, allowing physicians to access electronic medical records and information on the web from their patients’ bedsides.
GW doctors explain how to stay safe during a dangerously cold winter.
Panel of SMHS medical experts addressed topics in healthy aging as part of the Frontiers in Medicine lecture series, Dec. 12.
Alexis Janda never pictured herself as a runner. “The word wasn’t part of my vocabulary,” she said. However, the word cancer sadly was. When Janda was 10 years old, her father, Michael, passed away from stomach lining cancer.
In 2013, the GW Cancer Institute (GWCI) was the recipient of two awards that will allow the organization to continue to bring multidisciplinary clinical, research, education, and outreach programs together in a comprehensive approach to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
For clinicians looking for insight into the new standards of care for cancer survivorship, such as providing follow-up care, managing long-term and late medical and psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, or the importance of survivorship care planning, the George Washington University…