Press Archive

First-year MD student Amil Agarwal presented a poster on hidradenitis suppurativa at the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting in November.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences was honored with the Distinguished Academic Partner Award by the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation.

Beginning March 1, 2020, Children’s National Hospital neonatologists will staff the neonatal intensive care unit and the Well-Baby Service at GW Hospital. 

A joint group of researchers at the George Washington University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that dopamine and the dopamine D2 receptor modulate expression via the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. This pathway is responsible for control of cell proliferation and organ identity…

Congratulations to Lee Beers, MD, FAAP, of Children’s National Hospital and SMHS, who was elected to be president of the American Academy of Pediatrics starting in January 2020. 

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Timothy S. Harlan, MD, FACP, will join the faculty at GW and establish the GW Center for Culinary Medicine.

The GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a $500,000 gift from the Kanarek Family Foundation to support its Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum.

A research team including Michael Bukrinsky, MD, PhD, from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences published in PLOS Pathogens on the role of an HIV protein in causing metabolic comorbidities.

Reamer L. Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA, senior associate dean for health sciences and professor of physician assistant (PA) studies, and Howard Straker, EdD, MPH, PA-C, assistant professor of PA studies, were elected and inducted to leadership positions at the Physician Assistant Education…

David Steinhorn, MD, professor of pediatrics at SMHS will receive the 2019 Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Integrative Medicine on Oct. 16.