Press Releases
Today, more than 500 first- and second-year medical and health science students, faculty, and staff from SMHS scooped, measured, and bagged meals made of rice, dehydrated vegetables, soybeans, and 21 vitamins and minerals. In partnership with the DC Chapter of Kids Against Hunger, they assembled…
Children’s National Medical Center is once again ranked among America’s best pediatric institutions by U.S.News & World Report. This is the first year that the nation’s children’s hospital is featured on the list of elite pediatric specialty care providers in all 10 pediatric subspecialty areas…
The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society has announced that Dr. Alan G. Wasserman, chairman of the Department of Medicine at SMHS, has been elected to the Board of Directors as a Councilor Director.
A new Supplement of the peer-reviewed journal, Women’s Health Issues, a publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at the GW School of Public Health and Health Services, shows the tremendous growth and diversity of VA women’s health research in recent years.
Rising 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade girls from Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) were able to take a closer look at the field of genomics during two sessions of the “Go Girl” (Genomic Opportunities for Girls in Research Labs) Camp, held June 20-23 and June 27-30 at the George Washington…
SMHS announced today that Henry J. Kaminski, M.D., will be joining the faculty as the Meta Amalia Neumann Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology in September 2011.
The Department of Emergency Medicine of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is hosting the DC area’s first EMT-Basic Clinical Summer Program aimed at high school and first/second year college students interested in a healthcare delivery career.
Dr. James L. Griffith, professor and interim chair of Psychiatry and Neurology and director of the Psychiatry Residency Program at SMHS, was awarded the Creative Scholarship Award by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) at their annual meeting, June 2 – 4.
Dan O’Neill, a third-year medical student pursuing his MD/MPH at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and an HIV awareness activist, is one of 34 scholars, out of 2000 applicants, chosen to receive a scholarship from the Point Foundation.
WASHINGTON (June 16, 2011) — Researchers from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) have been awarded a five-year, $500,000-per-year R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).