Press Archive
WASHINGTON (August 17, 2012) — The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that Lisa Alexander, Ed.D., M.P.H., P.A. ’79 , has been tapped to serve as the program director for the GW Physician Assistants (PA) program, one of the nation’s leading PA programs,…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences welcomes 177 new medical students. This select group of students was chosen out of 14,700 AMCAS applications, which is the largest number of applications GW SMHS has ever received.
New research, to be published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that men who developed persistent sexual side effects while on finasteride (Propecia), a drug commonly used for male pattern hair loss, have a high prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.
Congratulations to Katherine Chretien, M.D., associate professor of medicine, for being recognized by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) for her outstanding contributions to educational research.
Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, authored the first comprehensive reference text to examine the growing area of…
A new study conducted by GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) researchers Edward C. De Fabo, Ph.D., Frances P. Noonan, Ph.D., and Anastas Popratiloff, M.D., Ph.D., has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
GW's Dr. Michael Irwig is the lead researcher on a new study that suggests that men who take the drug Propecia (generic name finasteride) and experience sexual dysfunction as a side effect, may not regain normal sexual function even after stopping the medication.
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2012) — The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences congratulates Guillermo Sanchez, a student in the Physician Assistant (PA) program; and internal medicine residents Nishaki Mehta Oza, M.D., and Veeral Oza, M.D., for being named New England Journal of Medicine Scholars.…
GW Researchers, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, and Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, along with colleagues from Khon Kaen University…
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2012) — The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Mervin Zimmerman Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology Residency -- Sankaranarayana Mahesh, M.D.