Press Releases

MaxMind, an industry-leading provider of IP security and online fraud detection tools, has given a $100K gift to the GW’s Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty to end schistosomiasis through gene drive technology. 
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce Robert Siegel, M.D. ’77, professor of medicine, as the new associate center director for education, training, and network development. 
Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Academic Emergency Medicine finding drug shortages affecting emergency care have skyrocketed in the U.S. in recent years..
David A. Belyea, M.D., M.B.A., vice chair and professor in the Department Ophthalmology and director of glaucoma services, was published in JAMA Ophthalmology for his survey of D.C. glaucoma patients who asked for a marijuana prescription after legalization. 
Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, finding effective interventions to address "boarding" have not been adopted in many…
Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Health Affairs, finding the most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to address…
Mark S. Zocchi, MPH, senior research associate at the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, was published in the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety for his evaluation of 42 U.S. hospitals to improve emergency department flow. 
Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are pleased to announce the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in concert with GW Hospital and the GW Medical Faculty Associates, has established the Ron & Joy Paul Kidney Center to raise awareness about kidney disease and increase live kidney donation in Washington, D.C.