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By his junior year at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978, Barry A. Wolfman already knew that he wanted to become a hospital administrator. His very deliberate career was a result of what he calls the meshing of his interests in medicine and business. “It was crystal clear,” he says…
For the 40 residents in the Department of Emergency Medicine at GW Medical Faculty Associates, the pace of life is frenetic. Their demanding schedules at GW Hospital, Inova Fairfax Hospital, and the Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center leave limited time for weekly lectures.
Dominic Raj, M.D., Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Biochemistry and of Molecular Biology at SMHS and Director of the Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension at the GW Medical Faculty Associates has been nominated to be a standing member of the Clinical and…
For high school students, making the decision about how to spend the summer months can be difficult. But for the 16 girls who attended the Genomic Opportunities for Girls In Research Labs (GO GIRL) summer program, held from June 11-14, the choice was easy.
In the fall of 1981, fresh from the Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned a Master of Science in Medical Technology, Carol Smith joined the faculty of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) as the education coordinator of the Clinical Laboratory…
Life-long learning is a commonplace, throwaway line that seems to work its way into nearly every graduation ceremony. Every graduation that is, except for the 10th Cohort of the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program (MTLDP).
Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., professor and Catharine Birch & William McCormick Endowed Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been elected as the foreign member of the Advisory Board of the Russian National Research Center’s Institute of Immunology in Moscow. Kumar has also…
During his childhood in Indiana, Ferid Murad had a habit of memorizing license plate numbers. At the restaurant his parents owned, he would keep customers’ orders in his head and tally their bills without pen or paper. He admits these exercises seem “crazy,” but says they helped him a great deal…
In Hippocrates’ ancient Greece, uroscopy, the visual examination of a patient’s urine, was a common diagnostic practice. Dark urine was considered to indicate acute illness and light urine suggested chronic disease. Even until the 1800s, diabetes was diagnosed by tasting urine to determine if it…
After a bagpipe procession set the tone for the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) M.D. diploma ceremony May 20, Jeffrey Akman, M.D., interim vice president for health affairs and dean of SMHS, warmly welcomed the class of 2012.